Lighting plays a crucial role in this film. We knew we need to use high key lighting. High key lighting refers to less contrast between dark tones and brighter areas. This includes brightly lit subjects, soft shadows. Fill light to increase the amount of ambient light to reduce contrasting. The larger the light source, the softer the shadows will look. The smaller the light source, the opposite will occur.
The use of high key lighting is perfect for our film. As a Chick Flick we needed to to be very bright. I used the movie Mean Girls as inspiration for the lighting, especially for the mall scene. The scene where the plastics walk into the mall is exactly what I imagined for us.
For this film I wanted to stray away from low key lighting. Even though my character wakes up at 6, we ended up filming that scene around 12ish. That way we can ensure there is no darkness from the morning dusk and we had full sunlight streaming through the windows.
Low key lighting is a great contrast between dark and light areas with majority of scene in shadow. This results in darker shadows, few amounts of whites and mid-tones. Creates a dramatic feeling, and draws audience eye towards part of composition. Mysterious moods can be observed from this. There is nothing mysterious and dark about our film.
Although most films use a lighting prop, we did not use one. All of our scenes outside turned out beautiful regardless. In fact, I think the natural light makes it more authentic. I’m very proud how the lighting in our film turned out.
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