Lighting

expresses their style. In particular, Tim Burton uses numerous cinematic techniques such as sound, lighting, and shots to demonstrate his unique style in movies like Charlie and the chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands. For starters, Burton applies the cinematic element lighting to set a different mood in a certain setting. Case in point, in Charlie and the choclate factory, Burton exhibits a back lighting to the mountains…

White Chicks, the director, Keenen Ivory Wayans, used many different cinematic effects. Wayans like to use long shot and close up shots in this movie, but also low and eye level angles. Wayans used different kinds of lightings like; high-key, neutral, front, bottom, and low-key lighting. Over all, the cinematic effects for White Chicks were all over the place. Wayans used all three different types of angles in White Chicks, but he mainly used eye level and low angles. Wayans used eye level…

particular hues of LED lighting that improves a student’s working ability. In a study runned by the Transfer Centre for Neuroscience and Learning, researchers combined blue and white hues of LED lights to create artificial daylight. As a result, students who were put into rooms lit by the…

blurred. The bar is lit in a manner that has the lighting coming below the actors, known as under lighting or “Halloween” lighting. As each character has a close up, the lighting is adjusted in certain scenes to three-point lighting that places the focus on the character that is speaking at that moment. The lighting creates a natural tone to the scene which draws you in a makes you feel like you are sitting in the bar with them. The three-point lighting helps to minimize the distractions of…

remaking of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Big Fish. He is very unique with his style of lighting, music choices and camera angles. He uses a lot of long shots with high key lighting. He also uses a lot of medium shots with bottom or side lighting making it seem scary especially with his choice of music. One of the best things a director can do is choose the right music for the right lighting in shots. He is very good at using ominous music when its needed. Most of his movies are set in…

the movie, The Natural; however, I really liked it. My thoughts are it is a classic on morality, good versus evil. The cinematographer emphasizes this through lighting. The first scene with Robert Redford, Hobbes on the train platform is in low-key lighting suggesting a drama. Then shifting to the exact opposite of high-key lighting while a young boy practices baseballs. These first two scenes delineate the two extremes of good and evil or right and wrong. The comparison of the women in…

right light to capture that perfect moment” (shawacademy.com). If the lighting is too bright and harsh, the image can appear washed out, overexposed, and dull and lifeless in color. If the lighting is softer, as often found during the “golden hour,” most colors have more contrast and appear vibrant and alive. The “golden hour” occurs just after sunset or sunrise, when the colors in the sky appear redder and the sun’s lighting is softer. When the colors in a photograph are more vibrant, the…

throughout the play. Creating a film that contains so many different cultures requires an emphasis on costume design, makeup and setting to ensure each diverse location is represented and each culture is portrayed respectively. In addition to this, lighting techniques must be manipulated to reflect the tone shift of each individual tale as it plays out. The setting in The Arabian Nights is a key element to creating an authentic film experience for the audience. Because the story…

Daylighting is the practice of using natural sunlight as much as possible to provide internal building lighting. The intent is to save on electricity for lighting and heating a building. Windows, skylights, and light-colored ceilings work together to allow sunlight into a room and disperse it as evenly as possible. The windows are either south or north facing to avoid the extreme glare of the rising and setting sun. Reflective surfaces and daylight redirection devices take sunlight beams that…

that Jeff uses a lot of throughout this movie and others is the impact of dark lighting. When something bad was happening or about to happen the lighting was very dark and grey. Shadows would cover parts of the characters faces indicating something dark and dangerous about them. The majority of this movie is very dark and disturbing and a way Jeff gets that emotion across is through dim lighting and shadows. His lighting and shadows in a way foreshadows something that might happen to either a…