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    Focus and Lighting

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    Cinematography focuses on camera focus and lighting to engage audiences and create meaning. Camera focus can be soft to soften features, deep to keep everything in focus, or shallow to blur the background. Lighting sets the mood through high key lighting with many light sources or low key lighting with shadows from one source. Three point lighting uses a key light, back light, and fill light to illuminate actors.

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    Cinematography focuses on camera focus and lighting to engage audiences and create meaning. Camera focus can be soft to soften features, deep to keep everything in focus, or shallow to blur the background. Lighting sets the mood through high key lighting with many light sources or low key lighting with shadows from one source. Three point lighting uses a key light, back light, and fill light to illuminate actors.

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    Cinematography focuses on camera focus and lighting to engage audiences and create meaning. Camera focus can be soft to soften features, deep to keep everything in focus, or shallow to blur the background. Lighting sets the mood through high key lighting with many light sources or low key lighting with shadows from one source. Three point lighting uses a key light, back light, and fill light to illuminate actors.

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    Cinematography

    Focus and
    Lighting
    Camera Focus
    • How the camera focuses on things is
    very important to creating meaning in
    cinema and engaging us as spectators.

    • The camera acts as our eyes in the


    scene, focusing on different people or
    objects. This allows us as an audience
    to identify important narrative points
    and create relationships with
    characters.
    Types of Focus
    • Soft Focus:

    • Soft focus was used a lot in the ‘Golden Age’


    of cinema.

    • It was used primarily on women to give


    them a glowing look and to soften their
    features.

    • It can also be used in excess to cause


    disorientation and confuse an audience (for
    example if a character has been struck)
    Types of Focus
    • Deep
    Focus:
    • Deep focus allows everything in the
    shot to be in focus at the same time.

    • It was made popular by Orson Welles in


    his infamous film Citizen Kane
    Types of Focus
    • Shallow
    Focus:
    • This type of focus is the opposite to
    Deep Focus. In this shot only the
    foreground is in focus, but the
    background remains a blur.
    Types of Focus
    • Pull
    Focus:
    • This type of focus shifts between 2
    points.
    • It can be used to draw an audiences
    attention, or to shift between 2
    characters in dialogue.
    Lighting
    • Lighting is an incredibly important part of
    cinematography.

    • It can completely change the mood of a film


    by creating or removing shadows on a
    characters face or in a scene.

    • By simply changing the lighting these two


    hospital corridors have a drastically different
    effect on an audience.
    Drama Horror
    Lighting
    • High Key
    Lighting:
    • This is a very bright lighting set up
    which is usually free from shadows.

    • Its is used to create a light and


    open environment.

    • This is normally achieved by using


    lots of different light sources.
    • Romantic

    Comedies
    • Comedies

    • Feel Good
    Films
    • Action
    Films
    • Children’
    s Films
    Lighting
    • Low Key
    Lighting:
    • This is the opposite of high key
    lighting.
    • This lighting looks to create shadow,
    which creates suspense and tension in
    a scene.
    This is usually achieved by using one
    light source.
    Horror
    s
    Suspens
    e
    Thrille
    rs
    Lighting
    • These two definitions are very basic
    and encompass either end of the
    lighting spectrum. There is a wide
    range of different lighting techniques
    between the two.
    Lighting
    • Three Point
    Lighting:
    • Films rarely use one light in a scene.
    The most common way to light a
    scene and an actor is through three
    point lighting.
    • As the name suggests this used three
    main points of lighting.

    • The key light, the back light and a fill


    light.
    Lighting
    • Three Point
    Lighting:
    • Key
    Light:
    • The key light is the biggest and
    brightest of the lights.

    • It shines from the front and bleaches


    out any contours in the actors face. It
    also creates shadows behind the
    person.
    Lighting
    • Three Point
    Lighting:
    • Back
    Light:
    • This creates a ‘halo’ effect and
    removes any defects in the
    background and foreground.
    Lighting
    • Three Point
    Lighting:
    • Fill
    Light:
    • This fills any shadows created by the
    Key light or Back light, for example
    shadows across the eyes or nose.
    Lighting
    • Overhead
    Lighting:
    • A single light from above a character
    can be used to create a sinister effect
    and can be unflattering for the actor.

    • This will highlight contours in the


    actors face and make them look
    harder, masculine and colder.
    Lighting
    • Under
    Lighting:
    • Although this lights from the
    opposite direction it still creates a
    similar effect.
    Similarly to overhead lighting this
    hollows out the eyes and obscures the
    face.

    It is normally reserved from male


    characters.
    Lighting
    • Side Lighting:

    • This creates a shadow across the


    actors face.

    This can be used to symbolise a duplicitous


    character, or one with a split personality.

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