SIXTH SENSE COMMENTARY

What is the purpose of storyboarding?

The purpose of story boarding is to plan your shot types and camera angles. This is to save time on the day of shooting. You can look at the story board and know exactly where you are going to put the camera and the characters. Story boarding allows you to see what camera angle to use and which shot type to use (CU etc...) Story boarding is known as 2D film making, it is almost like a pictured script.

How can you show lighting?

You can show lighting through the use of camera movement and angles. Different camera angles can position the lighting to create different effects and moods to the characters and the audience. Bright lighting creates a happy cheerful effect but could also create a ghostly feeling to the scene, whereas dull dark lighting creates a gloomy, miserable effect is is mostly used within horror movies. 

The way camera angles are used to create different lighting effects is to create different views on the characters, such as low angles are used to create the powerful character in a brighter light and high angles are used to make the vulnerable character in a more darker lighting.