Title: The Shawshank Redemption
Writer’s: Stephen King, Frank Darabont
Director: Frank Darabont
Year: 1994
Cast: Tim Robbins ( Andy Dufresne ), Morgan Freeman ( Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding ), Bob Gunton ( Warden Norton ), William Sadler ( Heywood ), Clancy Brown ( Captain Hadley ), James Whitmore ( Brooks Hatlen)
Lighting used: The Shawshank Redemption uses high-key lighting during periods of positive times within the prison. Some examples would be when Andy has turned on the record player and played the record of the opera women singing over the loud speakers. When the scene cuts out you can see all of the prisoners standing outside standing still listening to the music and almost sensing the feeling of freedom for the few moments they get to listen to the music.
Low-key lighting is shown when the darker parts of the movie are about to happen. Each time Andy gets attacked by the “Sisters” the lighting is darker to show that there is a negative action taking place. When Andy gets put in to solitary confinement it almost has no light at all to show how his actions have displeased the Warden.
The lighting technique fits will as it is used to show when the viewer of the movie show feel happier about a situation or feel bad about the circumstance that is taking place.
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