Lighting Techniques

From Cinematic Storytelling by Jennifer Van Sijll

• Rembrandt lighting/chiaroscuro as influenced by Caravaggio paintings - high contrast
• Backlighting is often associated with moral goodness/mystical
• Disassociate objects/body parts
• TV lighting eg sitcoms is often thought of bright, flat and shadowless, although recent sitcoms such as Insecure have tried to break away from this
• Candlelight flatters the face, smoothes skin, adds a warm tone - can subvert this warmness
• Motivated lighting is light that would naturally exist in the world depicted in the frame
• Light traditionally is used to represent moral goodness, darkness as evil
• Flood of light having religious quality
• Moving Light can be created - can be an approaching antagonist, chaos + madness, some of them can be rescue etc