Lighting

Today in this post about lighting I will define the term, mention some of the different types and finally in reference to my trailer.

The key light is one of the most important lights that cameraman uses. Its main function is to highlight the main objects.

Usually, in the back lighting the light is placed behind the subject to illuminate it, creating a silhouette effect, or to create separation of the subject and background, or to create depth between characters of objects.

The most common ones are high and low key lighting.

High key lighting reduces the amount of contrast because of such strong lighting, over-lights the subject to reduce contrast and feels airy and light.

A low key lighting always have dark tones and colours. It used to transmit drama and mystery.

Black and white are very common combination of colours on pictures with scarcity of light.

My group and I will make a romantic/drama trailer so we will consider both types of lighting through the process of filming. But it is true that because of the genre and the argument of the trailer,  high key lighting will appear more rather than low key lighting.