If you're shooting a horror movie, you'll need these tips to create a perfect spooky atmosphere. Horror is a fun genre to play in, for a lot of different reasons. Not only is it a genre that allows for a great deal of stylized filmmaking techniques, it also requires teams to get creative to figure out how much or how little they share with their viewers. Lighting and set design can work together to create tension. Darkness can be used to hide information from the viewer so that the imagination fills in the rest, and makes it even scarier. Director of photography Jon Salmon teamed up with Aputure to offer his take on lighting a scene in a horror movie, which used shadow, fog, and motivated lighting to help create an immersive feel. Watch their video below. The wide-shot lighting Since this example features an exterior pool shot, most of the lighting is motivated by the pool itself. But the flexibility of horror movie settings means you could be in a dark basement with a lone TV screen, outside under moonlight, or even in a low-lit spaceship. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 19 September, 2019