Planning: lighting

In our film trailer, we are filming in multiple locations which include both indoor and outdoor scenes throughout the trailer. The majority of the outside scenes will be present in the beginning of the narrative, when the portrayal of the relationship will be positive and happy. Through using the natural light from outside, it will help to represent the positivity we are trying to portray in the beginning of the film trailer; bright natural light has connotations of happiness and peacefulness, which is  theme that we want to be present when showing the start of the relationship in the equilibrium of the film trailer.

During the disruption of the trailer, we ares showing the breakdown of the relationship between the male and female characters, and we need to portray this through the mist en scene of the shots. One way that we will show this is through the use of low key lighting, which will show a contrast from the happy scenes early in the trailer. To do this we are going to film the breakdown scenes indoors, where the lighting will be harsh due to the artificial lighting; this can show tension to the audience. The artificial lighting however will be dark to reflect the feeling within the relationship.

This disruption will continue throughout the trailer and so the lighting will remain low key to reflect this. In order to shoot the best possible shots, we may have to use our own sources of lighting to create clear and sharp shots that are of a high standard. We will hire out studio lights that are available at our school incase we need them, as we may find that the weather is overcast and therefore may produce a darker light than we need; we are using lighting as a key feature in our trailer as it is going to represent the state of the relationship at the time of shooting, and so it is important that we have the correct levels of low key and high key lighting to reflect this.