NOTES ON DIFFERENT LIGHTING TECHNIQUES IN HORROR (2)

Obscuring through lighting

Unlike the other techniques, spotlighting, underexposing, hard light, and shooting through objects and elements don't distort or hide subjects in your image, they obscure or conceal them. This creates mystery, tension, and suspense, because though you can see some of what's on screen, you can't see all of it. Your eye is trying to fill in the gaps of what it's missing and usually what you fill them in with is much scarier than what's actually there. This is the magic of horror in practice.

Again this blog looks deeper at lighting and it makes us realise further that we needed to get to grips with it better and that's what we focused on over the last few weeks.