Comprised of key, fill and back lights.
Key light: main source of illumination. |
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Fill light: fills in shadows created by the key light. |
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Back light added to key and fill: separates figure from background. |
Cybill Shephard in Moonlighting (1985)
A Night at the Opera (Wood, 1935), 16:00
Low key lighting |
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Citizen Kane (1941), 18:10. | |
The Big Combo (1955) | Double Indemnity (1944) |
The Lady From Shanghai (1948) | |
The Matrix (1999) | |
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Mad Men production still (2010)
Day-for-Night, aka, la Nuit Americaine |
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The Hitch-Hiker (1953) | |
Out of the Past (1947) | |
From "Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene," Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture, TVCrit.com.