Lighting

 

Throughout our film, there isn't really that much of a change in lighting but that's because a bulk of it takes place in the same area. However, in the places we moved, the lighting ranges depending on the mood we want to create. 

For the first scene, it's done at night which is meant to add to the feeling of mystery we want to create. There is a cop car driving into the frame which then flashes its lights before it comes to a stop. There is a bright contrast created, meant to provoke feelings from the audience. This is the darkest lighting we used in the film, as everything else was filmed in either the day or with artificial lighting. 

For our second scene, we used a crane shot to show one of our characters walking into the police station. It then tilted upwards to show the entire station and title screen right after. This was filmed during the middle of the day, which shows the start of the interrogation process. Since we were outside, there was no way to add any artificial light nor did we feel the need to have to edit any in post-production. Due to us filming in the afternoon, this was the brightest scene in the film.

Before all of the individual talking scenes, there are bright flashes to show a mugshot being taken. This lighting is meant to be similar to that of taking an actual picture for identification purposes. This was the one time that we actually added light post-production, as we edited this entire process. 

Finally, the rest of our movie takes place in the same area with the available lighting in the library. There was no way to change what we had, so we just worked with what we were provided with. The lighting isn't too dark, yet isn't bright at all. It gives an ambiguous feeling as there is no guarantee that anyone is innocent. For these scenes, there was no lighting altered post-production.