Lighting effects- Misfits

In our media lesson we have been watching Misfits. This is a programme about a bunch of teenagers who are doing probation work. We have been studing the way the directors have the lighting, camera angle and the way they put the characters forwards and each one of their personalities. Also how all of these are shown to the viewer. When something bad is going to happen or something important is going to happen, the light around the characters goes down and goes quite dark. And the characters are brightened up, to be shown more bold to the audience. An example of this is when the characters get electricuted by the lightening, all the light around then goes and the light is on them to focus the simbolisation of the effect of the light.