Genre Blog: Horror
Common Lighting - Uplighting, Silhouettes, Prominent Shadows Uplighting creates weird shadows around the eyes and distorts faces, light from below looks unnatural. So, it creates an immediate alarm. Silhouettes add a bit more to this distortion because it plays upon the human fear of the unknown. Shadows obscure or conceal subjects in your image which creates mystery, tension, and suspense, because though you can see some of what’s on-screen, you can’t see all of it. They produce a complete distortion of the real world. The common theme among all different lighting methods is that they all obscure or distort reality in some way. Camera Angles- Hand-held shots are used very often in horror films to add a sense of reality, it adds to the horror of the scene as you feel like you are there. Low angles shots are powerful in the way, they can emphasize just ...
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