Lighting in Film: Color

Lighting is a crucial element when creating a film and this is because it obviously helps audiences to see what is happening and with the right lighting techniques, it helps to enhance the mood of certain scenes, giving the right tone to the film in general. In this blog, the techniques of lighting will be discussed in one of four different key factors, direction, quality, source, and color as well as the name of the person in charge of lighting and the responsibilities the title has.

In charge of the lighting in film is the cinematographer. With the first job of a cinematographer already mentioned, the two other things that the cinematographer is in charge of are the looks and color of the shots and for framing every single shot of the film.

Color in lighting is self-explanatory, being that color in lighting is defined as what color the lights on-set are. Like all other categories and elements of film, lighting enhances the genre of the film and gives audiences the correct mood. There are different types of lighting colors including warm and cold lighting colors. Warm lighting includes colors like orange, yellow, and red. Cold colors include Blue, Purple, etc. Media producers use warm colors for happy scenes and cold colors for more negative emotionally-connected scenes, like sadness, loneliness, etc.