10 Cloverfield Lane Essay

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Lighting techniques utilized in 10 Cloverfield Lane In the movie 10 Cloverfield Lane directed by Dan Trachtenberg, the usage of different lighting techniques helped make the movie extremely intriguing. The way the director utilized Available light, Low key lighting, and Hard light made such an impacted on certain scenes were brilliant. The movie had some great parts and others not so much, but the main focus of this essay is to discuss the scenes were certain lighting helped to persuade the audiences’ feelings in particular ways that the director envisioned for his movie. The non-diegetic music throughout the entire movie also helped to create intense feelings for the audience.
In the opening scene of 10 Cloverfield Lane the camera pans arounds a room to show it is an apartment were a woman looks distraught as she is franticly packing. The woman in this scene we later find out is named Michelle played by Mary Winstead. This whole scene the non-diegetic music helped to create a pancaking feeling, and the available lighting usage began to tell a story of certain objects located in the apartment that end up playing some major roles in the story further down the road. The director was very smooth using the available lighting
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It is amazing how the available light, soft light, and hard lighting can have such a huge impact in this movie. By picking these certain techniques of lighting it help to play a role in creating certain emotions among actors without the use of words and influence the audiences to develop their own prospected with only minor persuasion of light usage displayed on the characters. Besides the lighting that is utilized throughout the entire movie to help to create a certain mood among the audience, the choice of non-diegetic music was just as intense in generating even more

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