Workshop 3: How does lighting & colour enhance the story?

Atmosphere - Feel in a space, energy around you.
Mood - How you feel.
Location - Place Something happened.

Lighting
Natural - light that comes from nature, sun, moon, stars, lightning, fire.
Artificial - man-made lights, electricity, light bulbs.

Warm Light - yellow/ orange tone.
Cold light - blue/white tone - clean/clinical.

Colour Pallete - Predominant colours used in the scene.
Warm Colour - welcoming, happy, friendly
Cold Colour - makes us feel sad, lonely, chilly - clean, clinical

Brainstorm - Lighting and colour
What is happening?

- Coraline and her family are having breakfast in the real kitchen - looked rushed, tired.

Describe

• Lighting - Natural - Light clouds through the window
• Cold - white tone
• Bright - whole space bright

Colour 

• White, yellowish, cream - old. 
• Cold - make space feel tired. 

Effect on the viewer (Feel/think)

• boring dull sad
• understand that they are not a happy family
• Coraline - unhappy. 

Director purpose 

• makes either world more appealing
• Coraline doesn't like the real world. 

Other techniques - Setting

• outside window is cloudy + grey. 
• furniture looks old + run down. 
• doesn't feel lively and empty.

Brainstorm - lighting and colour

• Coraline + other parents eating dinner in the other kitchen
•  everyone seems happy 

Describe 

• artificial - ceiling light
• warm yellow/orange tone
• dull some space dark

Colour 

• Red, orange, white, black
• warm, happy, soft, welcoming.

Director purpose 

• shows theme 'looks can be deceiving' because other family look kind and happy but they are actually evil. 

Other techniques

• Coraline - formal, fashionable, fit,  better, makes them look tidier. 
• bright, black, red, white