La iluminación cinematográfica: desarrollo de propuesta de iluminación para el cortometraje Summer Beats

Abstract

This text is about a lighting proposal developed for a short film by the name of Summer Beats; its design follows a guiding scheme upon which certain strategies have been developed that aim at achieving the spectator to identify both with the storyline and the main character of the film.

For this purpose, a general research has been done in order to find out from historical, as well as technical perspectives, about movie lighting.

In a parallel way, a study of several audiovisual and pictorial references throughout time is used to exemplify or visualize the ideas that constitute the scaffold of this proposal, which will later be applied in the film.

Finally, a lighting proposal has been developed through the usage of chromatic differentiation between shifting scenes –with reference to color temperature-. This reflects on the choice of certain physical surroundings and is based upon the emotional and narrative atmosphere that surrounds the main character of the film.