Blog 24: Lighting

 The lighting of our movie is pretty dark. This wasn't really an intentional choice, more of a product of the camera's limited capabilities and the dim environment of the house we were filming in. In the end it services the movie's horror themes. I did go in and increase some scene's brightness in editing due to them being too dim to make out when watching. 

Can dim light make us...dim?

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