FRANKENSTEIN: How Lighting Affects Mood
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Lighting has the power to shift a film's mood and affect the story in ways that a script cannot. In this video essay, I use 1931's FRANKENSTEIN as an example of the power of lighting.
FURTHER READING:
24 Things We Learned From the Frankenstein Commentary: https://filmschoolrejects.com/24-thin...
Monstrous Audio-Vision in James Whale's Frankenstein: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.o...
An Argument for the Uncanny: http://influxmagazine.com/frankenstei...
James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/James-...
MUSIC USED IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Raining - DeKobe
Sunday Morning - .anxious
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