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Light for Mood?

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NAME: Russell Carpenter
TITLE: Cinematographer
SELECTED CREDITS: Ant-Man (2015); 21 (2008); Charlie’s Angels (2000); Titanic (1997); True Lies (1994)

Beyond the science and technology involved, motion picture lighting depends on your ability to match the mood and emotion of your project’s scenes. If your lighting aesthetic fails to match your story’s mood, the audience will notice—and be taken out of the movie or TV show. Cinematographer Russell Carpenter talks about shooting a crucial scene in Titanic in a video interview available only in the Chapter 9 Video Activity.

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Discover:

  • image How lighting mood affects a story
  • image How Carpenter used minimal lighting to illustrate the emotional state of Kate Winslet’s character in Titanic
  • image Why resources matter less than storytelling does