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The Importance of Lighting


    Lighting is essential while filmmaking, setting the tone for every scene. Furthermore, it also is chiefly crucial in the horror genre as a whole, with darkness and light having different meanings. Dark can shroud things in the unknown or it can protect a character from prying eyes. Lighting also plays a pivotal role in our own movie, especially as we weren't able to access an actual overpass for the moment between the second and third scenes. Because of this, we had to make our own darkness.

    In order to implement the shading in between the second and third scenes (when the passengers disappear), we had to consider many factors. Since we lacked flow and continuity between the dialogue of the second scene and the third scene, I went into HitFilm Express and made the second scene slowly fade out over a period of five seconds, then a black screen for two seconds, then the third scene slowly shifting into focus. Our editing with the audio in this section was similar, except with keeping some low (very low, otherwise the break would be noticeable!) ambient noise at all times.

The second scene almost done fading out!

    This brings about another issue, though, possibly misleading the viewer into thinking a significant amount of time has passed between the second and third scenes. However with the limited amount of video we initially took, we had to make do with what we had, and we felt this was the best way to do it. I tried to address this by keeping the ambient noise but we aren't sure how well this illustrated the story

    This experience will definitely be a lesson for us for next time to be better prepared and to more accurately foresee any potential problems that may come up.

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