Lighting homework, photographs taken in school and evaluation..

Lighting Homework

• Horror: this photograph was taken in a dark room with the door open so that we could control the light source and make sure that only a certain side of Lucy was in the light. The dark background further contrasts with Lucy making her the focus of the photograph. The darkness of the background symbolised the unknown and goes with the horror theme.

• Thriller: this photograph was taken in a corridor, and we simple turned off the lights and took the photo with flash. The dark corridor is again to make the photograph more scary and suspenseful and the figure being at the front but also the side allows the viewer to see what's behind.. Making the person in question more vunerable.

• Sci-fi: this photo we took again in a dark room. We shut all the blinds and instead shone a torch through a colander to achieve the spots of light on Lucy's face. We wanted the contrast between light and dark to be more intense than it was in order for it to look more surreal but the idea worked as a whole

• Period drama: this photograph we again took in a dark classroom. Again we used a torch but this time it was used in order to create a shadow on the wall. I was slightly turned to the side and not looking at the camera so we could imitate an old fashioned portrait, as they were usually painted sideways on, or at an angle.

•  Comedy or TV show: this photo we took in natural light. We wanted the audience to be able to see the face as they would in real day to day life to achieve  verisimilitude, the colander was used for a strange and "comic" effect. 

Photos taken at home