Lighting
It is essential in horror that you have the right lighting for the effect you are trying to achieve. Having the wrong type of lighting can completely ruin a shot and even make painful viewing for the audience. It is traditional in horror to have low-key lighting which sets a mysterious,ominous tone. The lighting effects everything the audience sees and how it is perceived. In darkness there is an uncertainty of what is exactly there. This creates anticipation for something bad to happen, which is exactly what creates a successful horror film. Our aim for our trailer is to try to utilise dark-ish lighting to create a creepy tone to exaggerate the dark connotations of our trailer. The challenge with the lighting was that we still needed the cameras to still pick up the footage and for the audience to be able so see clearly what was going on. Therefore we decided to film in daylight and achieve the low-key lighting by use of effects in the editing stage. We are looking to match certain darkness techniques when editing which will be recreations of scenes and shots from different movies that the low key lighting very effectively. SR