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12Lighting and Lens Effects

‘The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.’

Albert Einstein

Visual hooks

The lighting artist has the power at his fingertips to influence the atmosphere of a production far more than the majority of his co-workers. His decisions, which are largely based on how light behaves in the real world, set the mood of the story and directly affect our perception of the script. However, often the creative vision of a script goes somewhere beyond our everyday reality. This is arguably more often the ...

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