Chapter | Sixteen
Lighting
OVERVIEW
How to make the most of your movie on screen – using any available light you can get your hands on.
Your movie needs light like oxygen. Give it enough and it comes alive; too much and it’s overcooked. Without good lighting it’s just a series of events, with no meaning, no purpose and no feeling. Whatever you put into the film – whether it’s a gripping script or a unique subject – it only becomes vibrant and living once you feed it with the right lighting.
Lighting is to movies what descriptive words are to novels. In a movie, lighting is describing everything rather than just labeling. With good lighting, a “man at a desk” becomes a menacing man at a desk, “a room” becomes an inviting room, “a ...
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