Ideas for lighting!

To keep our light continuity we have decided to use artificial lighting so we do not get the natural light changes such as shadows created by the sun moving. This also benefits us in creating the mood and emotion which we want in our animation. Carrying on with the Tim Burton theme we can use different coloured light bulbs to create shadows and an eerie look, we would use colours such as a deep blue which we would use throughout the whole piece or a dark red for emphasis on dramatic moments. Using artificial lighting allows us to play around with shadows, by moving the flexible desktop lights we would be using we can manipulate the shadows to whatever we want, for example we could make the shadows long and thin to give that creepy gloomy look. We can also control the time of day using artificial so we can film things which would be daylight in the animation time but in real life it’s dark or vice-versa. We can also emphasis the moonlight which Tim Burton also does a lot in his work, this creates that gloomy, creepy look again. To make one of our characters look more sinister we could change the lighting so only half their face is lit up this could create a sense of fear and mystery where as if they were in fall light they would look more happy and innocent, this can help us create questions on Lucy by putting her in a darker light then the other characters. This will then make sense towards the end of the short film when the audience find out the climax of her actually being dead.