Lighting

Practising lighting with candles and torches.

At first I had some ideas of what kind or lighting I wanted to experiment with and after watching this scene from shutter island ( a psychological horror film) I was inspired to use a flame from  a candle and torch light to focus the light on just the subject and sometimes parts to their surrounding so it captivated the audience to just focus on what was being lit.

Candle light.

The candle lighting was difficult to control as the flame was sometimes flickering and also did not light up as much of the subject's face as I would have wanted it to but I was still able to get some good shots as well. The majority of the candle shots made the lighting around the subject red in colour and also created a slight shadow behind the subject on the wall.

Torch Light.

This lighting was much more successful than that of the candle light as i was able to control it a lot more and it also gave the pictures a sharper effect than the candle light. I also used red sweet wrappers over the front of the torch or simply by covering the flash on the camera with my fingers to give the lighting a red tinge or completely red lighting all over to make the subject and picture more sinister. The torch light also gave a more solid shadow of the subject on the wall behind to make the subject look smaller, or maybe more intimidating. 

 I also took a few videos of different movements of the torch that looked effected these included:
Two of the torch flashing on and off quickly,
One of the torch flashing on and off quickly but with a red colour,
One where the light moves across the subject,
One where the torch is moving very quickly as the subject looks up.