Horror Lighting | Nighttime Exteriors

Stay tuned to the end for a chance to win a prize! Lighting for nighttime exteriors is one of the most common challenges you’ll face in cinematography. How you choose to motivate lighting, whether from the moon, from street lights, or from something else altogether, will significantly change the feeling of a scene. In horror films, there is more flexibility in the lighting because the goal is to be as immersive as possible. Today, director of photography Jon Salmon walks us through how to shoot a night ext