Lighting

Lighting in films, and in particular thrillers is an effective tool to create atmosphere and mood.

We wanted to show a contrast between the two different scenes; the park and the dark room. To create this effect we decided to use lighting effectively to emphasis the difference.

For our first scene we wanted to show that the little girl was pure and innocent so we filmed in the park. The lighting here was perfect and because we filmed at midday on the bright day with few clouds it was easy to get the right mood. Here we managed to get the exact effect necessary to represent the good.

For our second scene we wanted wanted to create the complete opposite, we wanted to create a room almost in complete darkness apart from the shadows of the two people. This will bring focus onto the shadows and contrast to the light park scene as the flashbacks occur. We wanted to do this to show the binary opposition between the innocence and purity in the park scene and then the evil and brutality in the shadow scene.