Lighting Experiments

Lighting is a huge part for making any production in media, and can affect the way something is viewed, and can have meanings behind how the lighting is done. For instance, lighting can be used to make someone look differently, like Demi Lovato, once photographed from the side with a bright flash made her into an internet meme that was called "Poot." and was mocked because of the way the light changed her face. I have used the realistic figure of Henry Caville's Superman to show how a face can look differently, with the same expression. The first picture makes him look as he is suppposed to, an ideal of Hope. He is seen as a symbol to strive towards, and looks up to be the Man of Tomorrow. The light is not artificial, meaning it is not the sun's light, but without seeing the lighting in frame it can look like it is the sun, and Superman looks like he is there to protect humanity and life itself. 

The next picture is a change of lighting, and makes Superman look like a killer, this is what I mean by how lighting changes the scene, and with this same expression and simple change of lighting, Superman looks like a murderer and someone who has the intentions of a mad man due to his face having light shined on it from his chin and up. His expression is evil, and looks like someone who is not willing to save humanity, and this is how lighting can be manipulated and experimented on to change the emotion of a scene. 

The next two pictures are of a statue of Batman holding up Joker by his purple blazer, and getting ready to drop him. The lighting is huge for this character, as he is dark and brooding, and as he says many times "I am the night." So it is obvious that his lighting must be in the dark, and not artificial, using light from bulbs and torches as well as the moonlight, and in the interrogation scene for The Dark Knight, the lighting used is small at the beginning and we are not even aware of Batman's presence until the lights come on. 

The picture on the left shows how lighting can ruin a scene. The tense moment before Batman beats the high hell out of the Joker is ruined by the brightness of the scene, and the picture on the right shows how lighting can make a scene more dramatic and effective, with light being lost and closed off in this scene as it looks like the presence of the caped crusader causes fear to replace light with darkness.