Lighting

As I feel that one of the key area that we did not do that well on with out continuity task was the light, and that we are might uses a single light source for our scene in MI5 when our main female antagonist. We thought it would be appropriate to experiment with high and low key lighting and the effect of this.

High Key Lighting: Makes the scene feel happy and of a light mood as the audience can see everything that is in the shot. High key has more white and less shadow than low key. Also high key is normally used to show that it is day. High key connotes the protagonist character traditionally.

Low Key Lighting: Makes the scene feel tense, dark and moody as the audience can not see everything that is in the shot. This is because it is a primary instinct to be scared of the dark as you don't know what is there and fear the worst. Unlike high key lighting there are more shadows and there is more black with in the shot. Also it has become synonymous with the night. Low key connotes the antagonist character traditionally.

So for our MI5 scene I think that we should use low key light but only have the area around our antagonist in shadow as we need to see her face but what there to be tension and suspense. Whereas I think that our male protagonist should be shot in high key as this will be a juxtaposition to the female as make the audience link the male protagonist as being good as he is in a higher light and the female antagonist as bad as she is in a low light. With will help when we come to film our two scenes, but also in the edit as we have considered what this will mean and look like as a finish out put.