Production Post #3

 Production Post #3

      Hey everyone! For this post I'm going to talk about lighting. Lighting is super duper important, lighting can actually convey feelings and emotions, so we really tried to pick the right hues and tones for our opening. 

     For our two minute opening we had to think a lot about lighting, since we're doing a mystery/horror film, we needed lots of dark lighting. We decided to record in my garage for it to be super dark, and we used a ring light so the light would be very close to the table and props that we were using. For some shots we turned off every light, and placed the phone flashlight under the prop we wanted to show, for exampled we used this technique to show the marble, Gigi help the phone right under the clear marble to create an effect and to be able to see the light through the marble, we also used this to show the blue and red liquid mixing in a different flask, we placed the phone under the flask, and when the liquids dropped you could see the colors change. We also used a red light to create fear, red is associated with danger and energy, and we thought it would be the perfect color to convey these emotions on the audience. We want them to be scared and wonder what the doctor is doing, but we also want them to be excited for what comes next, so red was the perfect color for this. We used red mainly on the shots that we just show the props, not the shots that the doctor is making the pills, to create a contrast between the two types of lighting.