Lightlng Types

Lightling Types:

Key Lighting - The purpose of the key light is to highlight the form and dimension of the subject. The key light isn't a rigid requirement. Omitting the key light can give off a silhouette effect. Key lights may be placed in a scene to illuminate a moving subject at opportune moments.


Fill Lighting -

Fill lighting is a secondary source of light designed to go against the harshness of the key light. Fill lighting is shined on the object which the key light is focused on at a contrasting angle to the key light. It removes shadows while still allowing for contrast. This is accomplished by making the fill lighting softer than the key light and at a different vertical angle.

Back Lighting - A backlight is usually placed behind the main object in the view of the audience to create a silhouette effect, the background can be colourful and bright while the foreground stays dark.

High Key Lighting -

A style of lighting for film that aims to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scene. This was done partly for technological reasons, since early film and television did not deal well with high contrast ratios, but now is used to suggest an upbeat mood. It is often used in sitcoms and comedies. High-key lighting is usually free from dark shadows.

Rim Lighting - Rim lighting is often used when making profile portraits.  Rim  lighting  is  the  same  as  backlighting, where the subject is lighted from behind causing the facial features of the profile to be highlighted.

Chioroscuro Lighting - Used in film to show definite splits in low key lighting between light and dark.

The Male Gaze

While the ideas behind the gaze were present in earlier uses of it, the introduction of the term “the male gaze” can be traced back to Laura Mulvey and her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” which was published in 1975. Mulvey states that in film women are typically the objects, rather than the possessors, of gaze because the control of the camera (so basically the gaze) comes from factors such as the as the idea of heterosexual men as the normal target audience for most film genres. While this was more true in the time it was written, when Hollywood protagonists were overwhelmingly male, the concept of men as watchers and women as watched still applies today, despite the growing number of movies targeted toward women and that feature female protagonists.

The "Male Gaze" is basically used not just in film but also in advertising, but is also targeted at females aswell nowadays. This may have been so they could expand thier audience and make mre money. But the male gaze is still mainly used in film to appeal to the genders, because it may sound cheesy but "Sex Sells".