This here to me is a topic that I could explore in more depth. Its something that people consider hard to see which is better than the other.

Yes, black and white is amazing for shadow use and mystery. Using the example of the film Psycho things can be interpreted in many ways, but then again they used music as a way to enhance these image responses.

Colour films was a revolution in my eyes to the world of lighting. You can use coloured lighting and you can use bright colours to depict happiness and dark to depict the opposite. Sometimes they can do the complete opposite and use bright colours and had images, it’s a way to mess with the audiences minds. Sometimes even natural lighting can change the way it is all perceived. But yes, I think this is something very useful to explore in my essay for the future.

The images I have places above are all from Wes Anderson films. Anderson is an artist when it comes to colour palettes and lighting. My favourite of the images is the woman in yellow. Yellow in terms of colour is considered a happy colour and very positive yet her body language and emotions indicate the opposite. Also if you look into more detail she has a small window behind her head with natural lighting depicting daylight, yet she has two lamps on in her room. Small things like these interest me, which i hope to explore.

I think Wes Anderson has a lot of lighting techniques I hope to use as examples for my film essay. Especially Moonrise Kingdom, where most of it is filmed outdoors.

To me making films as a learning experiment and for educational purposes just doesn’t seem fun anymore.

Doing TAFE for 3 years of constant practical work I just felt in my final semester it would be good to test my skills at writing an essay. I came into this degree for one purpose to get better at my analytical thinking and observation skills. Ive started taking a book to each film I go and see and just write my thoughts as the film is being played and then at the end of the film critiquing it. It gives me a better understanding on how I overall felt and that way I can review my opinions at a later date

I learnt so much during practical work though filming, sound, editing, motion, visual effects, lighting, staging that it has just become very repetitive and I found that going out on my own, to research my own information has given me a chance to explore a topic in more depth.

It is here I hope to help myself in this learning curve and understand my own writing as well as improve on it as well. It’s a big task I’m going here as I have now ended up with 4 final essays to end my university education. In terms of further study, haha I guess this is just mentally preparing myself for thesis writing.

When someone asks me “what’s the first thing I think of when I hear lighting?” I think of the opening shot of the Mr bean TV show, not the cartoon the original.

It begins with a spotlight on him so bright you can only see his character and nothing else in the background. This particular technique was used as a way to show the object or the main character to the audience. In this instance mr bean is the main objective.

Can lighting effect our mood? Previously I researched how lighting can alter our emotional response. I think that lighting in an image can defiantly do this. The lighter the image may be the happier and more positive. The other way round with darker images, to the audiences perspective can be seen as scary and unknown which can cause uncertainty in how their overall response should be.

What I love most about lighting is how it can make you feel. I look at a bright sunny day as a happy day, it might not be happy sometimes but someone out there in the world is doing something they love in the sunshine and overall it makes their day. When I think of rain and clouds I think of darkness, sadness, shadow and hidden. It’s not a particularly good feeling when you wake up cause all you want to do is sit inside and cuddle up in bed.

If we were to see a man walking down an alley by himself in broad daylight to the audience watching the film this is just normal day to day activities. But then again if you place this man in a dark alley in the middle of the night the audience would automatically feel as though something scary were to happen. It’s a common emotional response.