Written Blog Essay 1 Journal Brief - Melissa Tulunay - Camera and Lighting - 3D Art and Animation

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.