Saturation: is the effect used to enhance or weaken the colours within the shot. This either makes the shot more bleak and boring or more vivid and harsh.
Lighting: There are many different types of lighting with different effects and uses. Ambient/naturalistic/artificial lighting is lighting that is supposed to look natural or is natural. Low keyl is dim light. Chiaroscuro is vivid black and white. Accent/spot light is a light used to highlight or emphasis something.
Filters: filters are colour lens to put over a camera to create a certain effect such as a cold feel with a blue filter, used throughout 'Minorty Report', or a red filter to create a warm feeling.
Saturation: used in 'Don't look now' to highlight the red coat of the young girl and also the blood.
Lighting: The overhead spotlight in the opening scene of 'Leon' to create dark shadows and creates a minsterious feeling as some of the characters features are hidden by shadows.
Colour: In 'Sin City' is used throughout to highlight certain colours out of the black and white background. Examples such as the red lips, the blood and the yellow of the evil yellow man.
Monday, 12 January 2009
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Where you have written 'Low Keyl' the 'l' on the end is a typo on the sheet. Haha, how would you prenounce that anyway? Very nice blog :). X
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