Looking back at my visual culture I decided it would be interesting to use colour to my advantage when lighting a scene in one or more of the shorts. The most obvious option for a colour tint inside the horro genre is of course red “Surrounding accompaniments of this colour have always a grave and magnificent effect" (Goethe J, Theory of Colours (BLTC Press 2008) p. 172) This is exactly what I would need within these shorts. There are senses of dread in many scenes that I feel could be amplified well by a red light. To do this I would only need to get a red gel for the main light or the smaller fill lights depending on how saturated I feel the scene should be.
http://filmmakermagazine.com/95481-watch-red-lighting-in-the-films-of-martin-scorsese/#.VywO5EeLHC8
The above link is a great exmaple of shots from films by Martin Scorsese that use red or red lighting, mostly to show panic or violence which is exactly what I am looking for, these further reinforce my idea to use red lighting somewhere within our project. It would be difficult however to make the red light look digetic so I will have to look into that in the future.
On the contrasting side, we could also use a blue light instead, often used as a calm colour, used in the right way it cold also be used to reflect cold “blue gives us an impression of cold” (Goethe J, Theory of Colours (BLTC Press 2008) p.17). The cold could make the audience feel more uncomfortable or get more of a sense that something bad is going to happen however I would have to be very careful. I could mask the blue as moonlight rather than just a blue light, making it ideal for on of the outdoor scenes.
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