The Importance of Lighting

In a video that I have recently posted (8/12/09 13:35) we have used a dramatic form of lighting that is a convention of the documentary genre. We such lightining being used in interviews that are shedding light on a dark or tabooed subject, Crimewatch on BBC often use this technique of lighting to disguise a victim that does not want to be in the public eye, it is also regularly used in a series called the Whilstblower where it protects interviewees identities.

Using this simple and effective technique in our documentary will add dramatic effect as well as coinsideing with this style of documentaries conventions.