Lighting

When we got the editing stages of our two minute film opening, we found that some of the more important scenes, had a darker lighting that what we originally intended. For instance, the bathroom scene had quite low lighting and we struggled to see some of the key features. To over come this problem we adjusted the light levels through I-movie.

Here is the bathroom scene and as you can see the lighting is extremely poor. You aren't able to clearly see our character through the mirror which is wanted. This was due to many things, we had the naturalistic light coming through from the window however our characters back blocked out this light. We didn't want to turn the light on as we wanted a more naturalistic feel.
To overcome this problem we edit the brightness of the clip to make our character more visible.

As you can see from the above clip, by changing the brightness of the clip, her face has become clearer and the colours surrounding her such as the wall and her clothing have slightly become brighter.

Throughout the rest of our two minute film opening, we wanted the lighting to have a warm atmosphere as seen in many films from this type of genre. We used the lights already in the house to create this so it looked realistic and effective.

Here is an example of the warm lighting that we liked throughout our two minute film opening. We feel that the bathroom images have quite a cold lighting which is symbolic of our characters OCD and how she is feeling yet when she is with her family it is contrasted with the warm lighting to depict the comedy aspect of our drama.