Don't Complicate Lighting

What is Geoff Boyle explaining in the is video? Why is it so important to keep this in mind?

His point is, lighting doesn't require a lot of expensive equipment. When you have the basics down, thousands of variations of lighting set ups can be created with minimum equipment that do not cost much. No matter how big the budget is, creating a similar lighting does not require expensive equipment. Knowing the angle and the properties of light is much more expensive when it comes to cinematography. As long as one has a firm understanding of atmosphere, quality of light, and the effect of different flags can be just as effective as any other.

Horror Lighting Tutorial

What are three key techniques that these filmmakers created tension with their lighting in this scene? How did they use lighitng effectively?

Illuminating the victim's face is important in making the audience associate themselves with the character. In that way, they will be able to feel a similar sense of horror that the character is feeling. Color can come to use in various ways. For example, using a blue light to demonstrate a cold night can be justas horrifying as using area light to demonstrate intense fear. Any extreme colors that doesn't appear in the natural world is effective for a horror film. Underexposing footage can also be effective in giving the audience minimum information so that they can fill in the blank for themselves.

Horror Lighting

What are the historical, aesthetic and psychological reasons for lighting from beorror films?

Up lighting distorts the human face, creating shadows around the eyes. Light from below does not occur in the natural world, and also symbolizes light coming from hell and is therefore scary to the audience. The light from below is symbolic of this emotion over the course of film history and so it is natural for people to associate this kind of lighting style with horror. Often times, fear comes from association with other elements that are seen as scary in other scenes in life.

Horror Cinematic Lighting Techniques

In a detailed paragraph, answer the following questions:

1. What are they key tips that you learned in this video?
2. What tip do you feel you could put to use in your horror film coming up?

Uplighting creates an uneasy atmosphere because it is a lighting set up that usually cannot be found in everyday life. It is useful to have this as a practical light so it doesn't look abnormal. Spot lighting is effective because it forces the audience to pay attention to one specific location n the shot. The inability to see anything beyond the spot increases the horror. Therefore, it is crucial that the parts of the frame that is not directly lit be pitch black. Highly saturated red and silhouettes can be psychologically distressing as well. Among these techniques, I hope to use the uplighting technique so that I can create a scene that is visually appealing for the audience.

Horror Film Techiniques

In a detailed paragraph, answer the following questions:

1. What are the key tips that you learned in this video?
2. What tip do you feel you could put to use in your horror film coming up?

Story, atmosphere (setting), sound, and are all important aspects of horror. For example, creating an  intriguing story that has a twist at the end keeps the audience on their toes. Creating an unnerving atmosphere throughout makes a jump scares even more effective. Sound design is key in creating hits atmosphere. When there are gaps in the sound, the audience is less likely to be indulged in the story. The video introduced the effectiveness of setting the camera settings to have one stop less light than a typical shoot. Having natural shadows and darkness can increase the realism of the scene.

Steps to Making a Horror Film

In a detailed paragraph, explain how you are using or could use 4 of these 13 steps to help develop your horror film story before you begin shooting.

4. Pick a Location

The location is set in the man's room, where he finds comfort in. Having a home invaded by unknown beings will increase the unease of the situation. 

5. Pick an inciting inincident

The inciting incident, in my case, is when the man hears a doll speak to him. At that point, he will recognize the baby's name, but he will not know where the voice is coming from.

10. Pick the confrontation

The scene where the doll kills the man in the world outside the room can be considered the confrontation. The man is no longer able to avoid the doll due to his size in comparison to the doll.

12. Pick the right music

Though I have not yet found the right music, I want the background to have a ticking noise that increases its frequency slowly. Hopefully, it will increase the heart rate of the audience, physically changing the emotional reaction of the audience.

Short History of Horror Films P.2

Why do you think that horror films happen in cycles? In your opinion what is it about horror films that makes this happen?

Horror films follow a cycle because of the change in the audience's perception of what they consider scary. For example, during the war era, people would fear science and the potential for an atomic war. As war erupts again and again, the audience will fear such events again and again. Returning back to old styles of cinema and recreating them has always been popular among filmmakers. The horror film is especially prominent in this factor because it specifically targets the fear factor of the audience. Fear is often an emotion that unites people, as it speaks to their strong natural instinct.