Comprised of key, fill and back lights.
Key light: main source of illumination.
Fill light: fills in shadows created by the key light.
Back light: separates figure from background.
Combining these three results in 3-point lighting.
A Night at the Opera (Wood, 1935), 16:00
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| The Big Combo (1955) | Double Indemnity (1944) |
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| The Lady From Shanghai (1948) | |
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| The Matrix (1999) | |
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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Day-for-Night, aka, la Nuit Americaine |
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| The Hitch-Hiker (1953) | |
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| Out of the Past (1947) | |
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From "Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene," Television: Critical Methods and Applications (Mahweh, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001); www.TVCrit.com.
