Workshop 3 How does lighting & colour enhance the story?

Atmosphere - feel in a space, energy around you.
Mood - how you feel
Location - place something is happened 

Lighting 
Natural - light that comes from nature, sun, moon, stars, lightning, fire.
Artificial - man-made lights source electricity light bulbs
Warm light - yellow/ orange tone
Cold light - blue/ white tone- clean/ clinical 
Bright - fills the space
Dull - fills part of the space faded

Colour
Colour palette - what are the predominant colour used
Warm colour -  welcoming, happy, friendly 
Cold colour -  make us feel sad, lonely, chilly - clean, clinical

Brainstorm - lighting and colour 
 what is happening

• Coraline ad her family 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 viewer ( feel/ think ) - 

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

Director purpose

• makes other 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 live in 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

Effect on viewer ( feel/ think ) - 

•  compact/close, intresting, safe 
• Coraline feel happy to be there 

Director purpose

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

 Other techniques

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