Research Mise En Scene - Lighting

Mise En Scene 5 Elements

- Setting 
- Lighting
- Body language & Facial expressions 
- Iconography 


What lighting can help create:

What lighting can help do is create mood and atmosphere in a scene or the film. Lighting can also do is allow the audience to be guided to a particular person, object, emotion or a gesture. For Example: if you see a character being shown, but only the shadow of that character. This can create suspense, tension or mystery for the audience as they don't know who the unseen character is. 

Under Lighting: 

Under lighting comes from the bottom point of the character, as this can create a effect. This effect that can be made with this type of lighting can distort the shown character. 


Top Lighting: 

Top lighting that comes above the character. This has a spot light type of effect that can make the character stand out to the audience as it can make them look glamourous to the audience. 


Back Lighting:

Back lighting comes from the back of the character, this can create silhouette's. The silhouette that is made can create a scary and eerie type of effect towards the audience, this is used to hide the identity of the character which makes it more mysterious for the audience.

Low Key Lighting: 

Low key lighting has small  amount of light that can create a eerie can scary feel. This is used in a isolated areas to scare the audience and give them a eerie feel towards the area. 

High Key Lighting: 

High key lighting has more light that has been added to the scene or film, more brighter than the natural lighting.


Coloured filters:
The different coloured filters can represent different meaning or mood in a thriller film depending on what the director is trying to show to the audience. for example; the red filter can represent blood, danger, anger, love and death with this filter the director can put this filter in a scene to show one or more of the meanings.

Examples Of Colours And Meanings:
Red - Horror/Thriller
Dark Blue - Thriller
Grey - Thriller
Grey/Blue - Action
Orange - Action/Adventure
Green - Sci - Fi/Crime

How did the light create meaning and understanding in "the mood and gutter" scene?

The red lighting in 'the mood and gutter' scene creates understanding towards the audience showing the audience that there is something that is going to happen to the female character. As the red lighting is shown in the scene it may represent blood or danger also as the female as walking the red low-key lighting started to hit her pure white innocent dress as she walked and increase faster and faster. The director has used low key lighting in this scene because the audience is able to see that the female victim is in an isolated area with very little lighting other than the dim street light and the red lights and the moon light, with the moon being shown a number of times this could mean to the audience that something dangerous is going to happen to the female as it is a full moon night. The full moon can represent that there are future happenings. Also adding on that back lighting has been used when she has been shown when trying to run away, also using the back lighting shadows can be created and to show the audience an understanding that some bad is going to happen to her.