Lighting

     The lighting for our film opening "won%", is going to be motivated lighting. I had to research all the different types of lighting types because I realised that lowkey wasn't the right one. 

    We decided to have barely any light because it reminds us of bed-rotting, which is a term made for people who stay in bed all day and do nothing but eat junk and scroll on social media. We planned on starting to film at around 1 P.M and finish before 5 P.M since it starts setting then and getting darker. If we don't finish, then we can just continue the next day. Sometimes when it's too dark, the camera quality looks very bad, since we don't have professional cameras, just our phones, we will probably have to use one of our phone flashlights on the lowest setting to make the footage somewhat visible. 

So the smaller yellow lines is the sun peeking through the blinds and the big yellow thing is going to be the TV. Where there is a very dark grey is where most of the shadow is going to be since there is no light from the side we see.

    Besides the natural light from the outside, which won't be super bright because we're going to close the blinds, there will also be some light from the TV since Alea, the character, is going to be watching a sports game. There will also be the microwave, but I don't think that will effect the camera as much as the TV, since it's pretty small. 

Sources: 

DeGuzman, Kyle. 2021. "What is Motivated Lighting in Film — Building a World with Light." StudioBinder. Retrieved February 15, 2026 (https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-motivated-lighting-in-film/).

Wiktionary. 2024. "Bed Rotting." Wikipedia. Retrieved February 15, 2026 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_rotting).