Planning: Lighting and Colour

Lighting: We will use three main lighting setups: First, a harsh brightness for the 'morning scene', to emphasise the pain of a hangover. The pub scenes will have a more warm lighting to them, which will reflect the general mood. Finally, in the rest of the narrative and the performance shots, we will use streetlights as a form of urban spotlights in an otherwise mostly dark environment. The resulting effect will hopefully be similar to some of the shots in 'Like I'm Gonna Lose You'. To just rely on urban nighttime lighting, and whatever ambient light there is from houses and the sky, will hopefully provide a degree of realism to the scene. The dark environment will symbolise the situation of the group, alone and in a bad way.


Colour: In the pub shots, to emphasise the mood, the warm lighting will be accompanied by warm oranges and yellows (like the colour of the beer, for example). Other bright colours may also be employed, perhaps in the outfits of the performers- A Sky Full Of Stars is a good example of how bright colours can reflect and amplify the mood of a song. Likewise, the morning scene shots will perhaps be whited out a little, made pale to again exaggerate the harsh white light. This colouring could also emphasise the cold harshness of reality, which the teen has now returned to after his drunken escapade the night before.




In the darker, outside scenes, the lighting will be lower, hopefully making the previously bright costume colours seem a bit dull. This will symbolise the dishevelled state the group enter as the night progresses.