Lighting Research

    Lighting will be an extremely important aspect of our film as it will enhance the feelings we are trying to portray, as well as give the viewer the feel we are looking for. Using some clever lighting tricks, we can turn our antagonist into the scary mob boss into someone to fear.

    

    We wanted our film to be very heavily based on old school mobster/gangster films. To enhance the noir type experience, we want to have a very villainous mob boss as the antagonist. To make the antagonist more intimidating and mysterious, we want to shroud them in darkness. Not revealing their true identity by covering them in darkness is a very clever way we can make them more intimidating.

    For the protagonist of our film, we want them to be in a much brighter setting, showing the contrast between the two. This would be easier, as we would just have him in a bright setting with many lights. We plan to provide lighting from above the character, like a street light shrouding the charcter in a dimmed yellow.

    Despite the fact that we wanted the protagonist to be lit up, we still wanted to maintain the noir feeling of the film opening. Due to this, we found it best for the film to still take place at night, further illuminating where the protagonist is, and further contrasting the light from the dark.