Lighting in my Thriller

Lighting was an important aspect of our thriller film, this was important as we needed to distinguish between real life, present time scenes and the flasbacks/memories that were occuring. At the beginning of our thriller film, Toby is seen to be smoking and ambient lighting is being used as he outside in the natural light as it was a sunny day at the time. After this shot of Toby smoking, we edited our film so that the remainder up until the end scene where we repeated the first shot of Toby smoking, is in black and white (classic noir thriller). We planned to put the this large section of our film in black and white as it easily establishes that what is about to happen was a flashback and memory from the POV of Toby. Another reason why this black and white effect was effective is because on the days of our filming, we saw that it was a fairly sunny and bright day and we wanted to create a more dark scene which was more dull and grey instead of bright and cheerful, the noir effect helped us to make this light less prominant and darken the scenes.

 

This is the lighting at the beginning of our thriller film.

 

This is the lighting when it has switched to black and white so signify a memory that Toby was having.