Well I literally spoke about this in the last post so I might as well continue with that. LIGHTING, this is actually really helpful anyway because I pReFeR to use all natural lighting, I believe it captures the essence of reality, what I am saying is I am normally too lazy to deal with that, but this is different.
Well first I have to figure out why the lighting is doing its thing and how. There seem to be three main reasons as to why it is used, to tell people where to look, to give insight into the characters in some way, and to help establish and retain the genre and mood of a piece. Simple.
That is the reason but then we get into the technique, there are a bunch of different types of light so time to list off some of them.
Key Lighting
Main light source in a scene mainly used to show the main character prominently.
Fill Lighting
Helps with how the person wants to shadows to be.
Backlighting
Helps to make the characters or item pop out in the shot.
Practical Lighting
Lighting coming from within the scene itself. Usually are not the main source of light and more used to present a more visually interesting scene or convey more of the tone.
Motivated Lighting
Works as a way of recreating natural sources of light for a certain effect.
There are a lot of other techniques and ways lighting is used but these I feel will work the most or simply be most prevalent in my piece, to me these give off the neo noir style. The examples for the most part are high contrast and the one that isn't, the fill lighting, I feel I can use in some way to contrast the other types of lighting and perhaps make them pop out in some way.
The high contrast images mainly taken up by darker colors I feel very closely show the genre and is representative of what the characters are doing in the film. As I am writing this I am realizing that the two characters themselves are kind of opposite, will definitely keep that in mind for the lighting as well.
I think I will aim for a lighter look for the lighting since I am planning, at least for now, for it to be partially a comedy. Then I will use one character to gradually darken the piece as he starts to take more control of the narrative.
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