Sunday 7 October 2012


In this image, low key lighting is used as theirs shadows on her face. On the image, you can still see the contrast between white and black. The shadows are mainly on her forehead, below her nose and on her hair. On the ceiling, there are shadows. On this still image, there’s hint of white that coming from the light bulb. Using the low key lighting emphasises on the danger and horror. Low key lighting helps the audience to focus on the character’s facial expression. Low key lighting indicates how frightened the characters are. It is usually used in horror movies to show the mysteriousness, surprise and danger.The lady on the right side seems to be frightened and scared. We are able to deduce that she is in a dangerous situation as we can see she has shadows spread on her face. Her eyes seem to have widened as if she can see something. We can’t tell the colour of her as low key lighting is used.  We also cannot see whether her mouth is opened or not. This is because there are shadows all over her mouth. Although most of her face is covered with shadows we can still see that her frightened face. This is what low key lighting does. Although it hides most of the face, the audience is still able to see the characters facial expression.

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