c)lighting

Definition: The making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography.
In the intro the lighting is dark but there are fast strobe lights. The strobe lights are all different colours. The lights are flashing fast to go with the picture on the screen that changes abruptly. The strobe lights are used to show the intro is set in a night club. The night club scene relates to later on in the movie when the characters go to a club to sell drugs.
There is a contrast between the lighting in the club and the strobe lights. The strobe lights are all of bright colours, where as,  the club is dark because it is set at night. We know this because when the shot is not of people dancing in the strobe lights it is of people walking around the dark club and you can just see the light coming off their faces, bodies etc. With all the different lights i feel the focus was to resemble the film and how it is watched from a certain characters point of view and then it switches to a different characters point of view.

 

In the film opening I feel  the different beams of light in the strobe lights represent the different points of view the story is told from. The lighting in the opening scene is different form the rest of the film because the opening is set in a nightclub and the rest of the movie isn't. The use of strobe lights in the opening is used again in the middle of the  film for another scene set in a club. The strobe lights are used inside the club, where as, for the small clip of outside the club, the is minimal lighting used to show it is night time. The lighting establishes the mood in the club because the strobe lights flashing at the same pace the music and camera shots move at. The dancing is to the same pace as the music and i feel all the features i have described are linked together really well.