For this week’s blog, I will be talking about the lighting from Season 1 Episode 10 of the television show “Supernatural.” In this episode, Sam and Dean are in an old asylum that is haunted by patients that revolted against the head doctor because he was inflicting cruel and inhumane punishments on them. In this episode a young girl and boy venture into the hospital one night to see if it is really haunted. Ultimately, they get separated. In the picture, the boy is trying to get his flashlight to work as one of the ghosts appear in the doorway behind him. The key aspect that made this scene scary was the use of shadows. The shadows went along with the main aspect of this asylum. The patients were forced to bear through gruesome experiments, thus leaving them deformed. By using a backlight and low intensity diagonal back light, it gives a clear silhouette of the ghost. We are able to know what it is, but our curiosity continues as we wonder what the ghost really looks like. As I have gone through the first season of “Supernatural,” I have found that they use this tactic very often because it is effective in raising the stakes and getting the scare they want.
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