You have seen and discussed some of the lighting in Blade Runner, now watch a movie on your own and tell us about the lighting.
Refer to your text's glossary for lighting terms that will help in your discussion.
Remember also to give us a synopsis of your film, in case we are unfamiliar with it.
Reminder: Everyone readBlade Runner script for next week so I can have you meet with your lighting groups.
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I looked at a film called Idlewild, which takes place in the prohibition era during the early 1940s-50s. The story surrounds a speakeasy where jazzy musicians perform for rowdy, swing-dancing crowds. There's a struggle over the business that riddles the story with greed, murder and fame.
The lighting in this movie is extremely low-key, and this accounts for the dramatic effect it has. Often times, there is either a very soft, diffused fill light, or no fill light at all. This makes the deep shadows stand out against the back light and the key light, creating a very bold and exciting look. I believe that the lighting designer used these lighting set-ups in order to imitate noir films, and therefore imply an earlier time period. In fact, the film begins with tacky, old, colorless stock footage from the early 1900s. Also, there are occasional small bits of the film that are only black and white.
There's an amber tint of key light used in the film that reminds me of an antique photograph, which once again implies an earlier time period. The key light is very flooded, to give the subjects soft edges, and it has continuity in it's position and intensity. The back light is sometimes another color, often goomy and blue at night, or yellow/red when the scene takes place inside of a building. The fill light is often times very subtle. Depending on the position of the cameras or the position of the actors, I noticed that the key lights, back lights and fill lights could change. For example, if two actors are talking, the back light for one actor may become the key light for the actor in front of him/her. Short lighting was used the most during the film, and it seemed that more overhead lighting and broad lighting was used during the scenes where musicians performed on stage. I guess the designer did this to isolate the performers from everything else.
The lighting in the scenes that took place outside were less interesting because of the ambient lighting, which can't be controlled. The ambient lighting also interrupts the continuity of the film. I think that in order to combat this, the filming took place at later times in the day, when the sun was less vibrant, and had an amber color that matched the key light more appropriately. Scenes that took place outside were often filmed near trees or buildings. The shadows of the leafy trees gave scenes texture, and the dark shadows of the buildings in some scenes allowed me to see some of the reflected ambient light bouncing off the ground or another object. It looked like to me that the designer did what s/he could to make the best of the ambient lighting; sometimes ambient lighting from windows became key lights for scenes on the inside of a building.
I chose "Labyrinth"..Sarah Williams, a teenager with a large imagination and love for fantasy stories is stuck in the house once again babysitting her fussy brother Toby. Angered by his constant crying, Sarah decides to re enact one of her favorite stories "Labyrinth" and calls upon the Goblin King to take her brother away from her. To her suprise her wish came true and Toby was wisked away to the Goblin King's Kingdom, leaving a regretful Sarah 13 hours in an ever changing maze to rescue her brother before the Goblin King turns him into a goblin for all of eternity.
The lighing in this movie was really good. I liked how well the lighting worked with the actors and the backgrounds. The primary subjects were always accentuated and the lighting made sense with the story. There were certain parts when the lighting was very dim and erey which gave you a feeling that there was trouble, or something was going to happen. In the movie there were a lot of scenes with dark shadows behind the actors which made the film very interesting. I really liked the lighting that was used in the very beginning of the film, when an owl flys into the young girl's room and turns into the Goblin King, a brighter light focuses on him while the rest of the room is very dark. Over all I thought the lighting was creative and very interesting. I liked how it made the story more fun and exciting to watch.
I chose "Pan's Labyrinth" for my movie. The story takes place around the 1940s, after the Civil War in Spain. It is about a little girl who is said to be a princess in her past life. When she stumbles across a labyrinth, she meets a faun who gives her a magical book that will reveal the three different tasks she must complete before she can be a princess again.
The lightening for this movie varies. Depending on what scenes are being played, that is. The majority of the movie takes place at night, therefore there was hardly any light at all. On the other hand, the beginning of the movie started off fairly bright--sort of soft and gentle. I noticed only a few scenes where the light was actually very bright. These scenes normally happened during the afternoon when the cast was either outside or standing by a window. I believe the creators managed to keep the lightening as natural as possible since the characters were outside a lot. As the movie progressed, you start to catch on that the lightening really does reflect the mood and feel to the movie. First, the film starts off with somewhat bright, natural lightening. Then towards the middle there was a lot of rain and thunderstorms that was used to symbolize danger and tragedy. Then of course, you had the night scenes where there was a tremendous loss of light. Almost so dark you couldn't make out the picture. I honestly think there could've been a way to curve that and at least make it so the scenes are easier to view. The end of the movie had really great lightening. It was moderately dim but not by much--just enough to set the mood for a beautiful ending.
I watched 3:10 to yuma. its about a small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. from imdb.com
overall it was a pretty good movie. i noticed when i watched the bonus features that when they were shooting some of the night scenes they used a metal stick and set it on fire for the key light. they used it when his barn was on fire. obviously they didnt have lights back then so all the night shots were shot with fire. during the day i think they just used the sun but in the buildings it seemed like they used a softer key light for most of the shots.
I watched "Death Sentence". It's about a Family Man (Kevin Bacon) revenging for his family. It's a twisted movie and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
The light in the movie was pretty good I think. It was very professional. This movie was directed by the director of saw, and the lighting is very similar to it.
I watched “The Bucket list” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. It’s about two men who share a hospital room together as they battle with cancer. When on remission they decide to create a list of things they should do together before they die (kick the bucket). Directed by Rob Reiner. You might have seen him on the show called “All in the Family” or in the movie “Stand by me”. He has directed “When Harry met Sally”, “Misery”, and “A few good Men”.
I noticed in “The Bucket List”, that the lighting was very natural with simple highlights over the subjects. The men always seemed to be back lit. I feel he would back light his subjects, lightly, to define them from their surroundings. The light that highlighted their heads gave a subtle halo around their head. I would believe symbolizing a higher being looking down to them. As they travel, the landscape scenes were lit brightly and intensified the colors in order to leave everyone feeling awed by the view. I felt I too was traveling with the two men and dumb founded by the majestic views. When in the hospital, I believe the director decided to keep the shadows as real as possible and minimal to expansive creativity. The reality of true life was important in this film.
-Jordan Martinez
I watched the movie 23, starring Jim Carrie(or is it Carry), well he played a character named, walter who finds a book about the number 23, and while he was reading it he thinks the story may have been about him, so he obssesses over it and soon becomes obsessed with the number 23 himself.
I do not know much about lighting yet and hope to learn more, but one thing i noticed is that when the played scenes from the book the lighting became darker, and had an old dectective movie feeling(I beleive u said the name of that style was norwall or something, or maybe thats a type of whale well u get the idea).
At one point there is this really white room, its very bright i would like to find out how they did it, I think they may have messed with the white balance too though.
Ide recomend thise movie. The story is very interresting. It will make u think.
I choose the movie Chicago, this movie takes place in Chicago during the early 1950s. This Jazz Musical ravels around woman, murder, and jazz. Roxi Heart (Ren’ee Zellweger) wanted to be a star and have her own act. She would do anything to get it even cheat on her husband to get a singing job in a club but when she found out he was just playing her she shot him and ended up in jail. At the same time Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her sister had a double act but when she found out that her husband was cheating with her sister she took matters in her own hands and ended up in jail along with Roxi. They happened to sharing Bill Flynn a silver tongue lawyer who’s never lost a case for a female client. Both of the women are fighting to be at the top of his list to get out a jail. There is a lot of music and dancing and lights.
I thought the light was great to me. It was lots of color lighting the sillowets and spot lighting that was my favorite. they did the names with lights
Chicago Lighting
They had lots of golden lighting in the beginning on the ceiling in the nightclub.
Because it was a musical it had a lot of spot lighting and on some sense they had the light slowly cover the subject. Almost like it was swallowing the subject.
They had red backlight and it silo wets the girls that where dancing in front of the lights.
The have a part call Razzle-Dazzle were the lights kind of bounce of the sequence.
There was a soft blue light when they were dancing the Cellblock Tango.
They had a very soft white spotlight later when a ma was singing Mr. Cellophane.
At the very end they had a wall of white lights and then it started spelling out there names.
All in all I love the movie but the lighting was great to me. That’s the kind of lighting I want to lean how to do and more. I love the flashy kind of spotlights and the way it makes the subject just comes out a lot more.
When I speak of the movie “El Cantante”, I always think as a wonderful movie and the character play a wonderful role. This movie was a true story movie, It is a sad movie, but exciting. The movie consisted of a youth puertorican singer who sings salsa and that people love his music every time more. He became professional and famous in his carrier as a singer. Like all the singers, he fallow in love to beautiful woman and had a beautiful son. The role of the singer was with Marc Anthony and the wife was Jennifer Lopez. Like all the relationship, they were fights and yes, alcohol was involved and drugs. He became addicted to every kind of drugs that we can think of. His life began to drift away and his family was going dawn the drain. One day the little boy was playing with his friend when he found a gun and shoots himself the kid was only thirteen. Then after that he realize to stop every bad thing he was doing, because he was the one who send his son to death. After a few years of singing and trying to be the best, he was detected with a disease the HIV. Even thought he was sick he still kept going till he pass away. This is one of the documentary movies that I thought it was the best.
When the movie started, it started with a black and with lighting, then it change to the regular color, I think that the lighting was wonderful, a litter not bright but wonderful.
I watched V for Vendetta its about a terrorist who revolts people against a European post modern fascist government and ends up being a hero.
The lighting in this movie expresses the majority of the main character V's emotions because he is wearing a mask through out the whole movie, it is a cinematic masterpiece of emotion conveyed through lighting
I looked at a movie called Shottas... the movie was made in tradition of Scarface and The Harder They Come. It is about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Kymani Marley (Biggs) and Spragga Benz (Wayne) take one the shotta, "gangster", way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the U.S., where the begin the ruthless climb from the bottom to the glittering top of the criminal enterprise in Miami filled with fast cars and gorgeous women.
Shottas is my most favorite movie. I've seen it atleast thirty to forty times in the past year. I feel that they did an excellent good when it comes to the lighting of the film. Because it is a movie with a tropical theme to it they were able to utilize the sun along with additional lighting supports... They did a good job making it seem as natural as possible. Even with the club scenes they were able to create a dark club scene but still at the same time illuminated there faces. Overall, they did a good job with the lighting.
I saw a movie called I Am Ledegn with will smith. It didn't come out to long ago.But its about a disease that was spreading across America and Will Smith had stied back in New York just to find a cure before it kills everyone on the face of the earth.
The lighting in this movie was done pretty well in the day and night time scene.There wasn't any blurs were u cant see the actors face. But there was this one part were they had to turn out all the lights when he was looking for his dog in this run-down building and u cant see his face at all. But other than that the lighting in the movie was done well.
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