Written Blog Essay 1 Journal Brief
Melissa Tulunay
Camera and Lighting
3D Art and Animation
Dark Streets: scene: 3.1, and the movie: 1408 from year 2007, directed by Mikael
Håfström, are both a window scene, with a centered and focused camera shot of
our main character. Similar to 1408, I have chosen to surround our subject
with a few yellow room lights that create subtle shadows in the room. From the
street we see dim white street lights coming from outside. I did not add the blue
tint from outside as I decided that it might conflict with the audiences perceptions
of the main character, and how she felt about what was on the street.
Dark Streets: scene: 4.2, and the movie Inception from
year 2010, directed by Christopher Nolan, both show a character between the window
frame. With the lights, I tried to create a similar atmosphere with warm
color tones that created a variety of soft and deep shadows on the side of the
character’s body. The aspect of the camera that slightly peers through the window
from the shoulder was a perfect example of having the foreground and the
background separated by the camera’s position.
Dark
Streets: Scene: 6.1, and The Dark Knight, the 2008 Batman movie, by Christopher
Nolan comparably both have a low shot of a character from a street view with
window lights and street lights arranged in the scene. I took ideas from the
movie scene adding bright lights behind the glass windows that displayed a
shiny, but translucence appearance from behind glass. I added street lights
that overall added a ray of light on to the apartment walls without taking away
the sensation of a night scene. Each light surrounded the main character’s body
in its own way, and assisted the sense of realistic looking shadows.
Dark
Streets: Scene: 5.1, and season one of the television show called Better Call
Saul, created by Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, both have a scene that is a very
dark night scene. In the show the actors construct a shadow that is angled and
stretched out behind them. By analyzing the demonstrated effects, I tried to imitate
the effects the movie offered, by adding a strong street lights, being careful
that the shadows stretched onto the wall pleasantly. I put an overall fill
light coming from the apartments behind him so it would suit the compositions
of the scenes before this shot.
