Lighting plan

Lighting plan

Scene 1: News report

This is the exposition, the scene will open with an establishing shot and then a slow pan across the living room to Sarah, all lighting will be high key natural lighting. I will film this 10am/midday to get maximum lighting, filming in personal living room is convenient as it has a big surface area for natural light to enter.

To film the news report I will be using the green screening room, this will have high key lighting and artificial use of lights, and this is because I am trying to follow the typical conventions of a news report.

Scene 2: Train station

I will not be using any artificial lighting here as the mes en scen is supposed to create a realistic view of the scene and therefore only natural lighting will be used.

Scene 3: Flashback

There will be high exposure of light in this scene, there will be no white balance because this is to create a dreamy reminiscing effect. This clearly indicates that this is a very important aspect of the film, it is visually different as there will be a soft focus and mild glow throughout the whole scene, it is to signify and keep separate the events of Sarah’s life from when she was young and now, despite Sarah mentally travelling from the younger years of her life to the older years what links them together is the sting and motif- the nursery rhyme and teddy bear.

Scene 5: In the house

When Sarah arrives into the house she will enter when it is broad daylight (natural lighting) however at this point the lighting will change very quickly and dramatically giving the scene more of an edge. Majority of the scene will be in low key lighting where by just the movement and facial expressions (through extreme close-ups) are visible. In this scene I want to create a dark and shadowy effect, the dark and night time in the horror genre is often associated with ‘the fear of the unknown’ and the ‘things hidden in the dark’, typically in the dark and night the villain carries out their evil plan, therefore by adjusting and editing the scene to make it look visually dull and dark I will ensure that my audience expectations are fulfilled according to the conventions of horror genre.