Lighting Assignment-Annah Freeman

"The Dark Knight"

Film Title- The Dark Knight

CONTEXT- The director of "The Dark Knight" was Christopher Nolan and the cinematographer was Wally Pfister.  With a $185 million dollar budget, "The Dark Knight" brought in a little over one billion dollars in the box office. This movie was released on July 18th, 2008 becoming the highest grossing film in the year it was released. 

CONTENT- In this particular scene of "The Dark Knight," the joker is threatening people in hopes that batman will turn himself in. The Joker is holding someone hostage and torturing them. He then preceeds to take our gasoline and pour it on the pile of money and begins burning it. The Joker tells the man in this scene that he will attack a hospital and everyone in it if Coleman does not turn himself in. Ultimately, the Joker does not want batman in Gotham and wants Gotham to be a place filled with crime and horror.

FORM- The lighting in this scene is gloomy and somewhat scary. The scene starts out very dark and then once the Joker lights the money on fire, the whole mood changes. The fire adds a warm, yet intense and intimidating tone to the movie. When the other man looks at the fire, you can see the fire's reflection on his face and this shows the man's weakness in this moment. The fire behind the joker gives him a more powerful and intimidating stance in this scene. Also, the fire definetly grab's one attention because prior to the fire, the scene was a little dark. Conclusively, the fire is the main lighting source in this particular scene evidently because the rest of the room is dark leaving the fire the main attraction within this scene.