Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Lighting in Thriller films

Lighting 

Lighting is a very big thing for thriller movies. Think back to when you were a small child, I’m sure you owned a nightlight, right? Everyone is afraid of the dark at some point because that’s where the meanest, nastiest monsters can hide without being seen. 

Thriller movies love manipulating darkness because they can hide creatures and have them emerge in the most dramatic fashion. How many times has a thriller protagonist burst from the shadows and scared the daylights out of viewers? A cloaking darkness makes for grander reveals and bigger scares. 

Darkness is a thriller movie filmmaker’s best friend, and with found footage movies we now have even more ways to play with darkness with night vision mode, only making our fears of the dark that much more sensible.
                                         


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