Grave Encounters - Lighting

• The lighting here looks like it is coming from a camera source or from a ver large torch light. This helps to create a lot of dark spots in the shot, adding tension to the scene.
• The way that the light is so strong also helps to completely black out the windows. By blacking out the windows, it gives the impression that there will be no way out.

                          

• Here, the lighting is illuminating quite a lot of the wall, especially on the right of the shot. However, this does not make the shot any less eerie.
• The way that this shot is pretty much balck and white adds to our sense of insecurity because it makes it harder to distinguish between shadows and the dark.
• At the every end of the corridor, the lighting makes it look like there is a shadow, implying that there may be something/someone there.
• Seen as we cannot see whatever it is that is there, we are put on the edge of our seat, just waiting for something.

• In this shot, there is quite a bit of lighting, which seems odd as it is meant to be a horror. However, I do think that the lighting here makes the shot even more eerie because the camera image is quite distorted.
• The lighting here also helps to eliminate any shadows in the shot. This adds to the suspense because we are just expecting something to jump out of nowhere. 

• This shot is different because it shows the lighting coming from a light on top of the camera. I think that this is different because it adds the, almost, circular effect to the light. This acts like a spotlight.
• Another interesting thing about this shot is that it is slightly green. This green tint connotes that something is not right as it is an 'off' colour that we usually associate with someone being ill.

• I found this shot really interesting because it is a close up of a man, but the light only illuminates one side of his face.
• This shows that, although he may be talking to the camera and saying one thing, one half of him is concentrated on something else. Something darker maybe?
• It also helps to show the flaws on this mans face. It highlights the bags under his eyes and the worry lines on his forehead. This all brings us closer to the character as we are at quite a personal, though quite uncomfortable, distance.

These two shots both have the same colour tint to them. I found this quite interesting as it links the two shots together, even though they are in different parts of the trailer.

The slightly green tint, that looks a bit like night vision cameras, adds to the tension of the trailer overall as the places that the light isn't hitting are really quite dark.