Lighting Your Halloween House Home Improvement Tips
If you’re ever been on a Hollywood soundstage or seen a backstage documentary of the making of a horror film, you know that the key to those gory effects is effective lighting. Seen in the clear light of day, gory gunshot wounds, scary monsters and forbidding caves all look pretty silly. With proper lighting, they become horrifying.
Fortunately, you don’t have to have millions of dollars worth of special lights or be a director of photography to light your Halloween scene. Just follow some of these special tips from the pros…
1) One of the major factors to effective lighting is not light at all, but the shadows cast by lit objects. It’s those deep, high contrast shadows that turn a pastoral daylight graveyard into a frightening nighttime cemetery. So, to get the same effect for your front yard cemetery scene, front porch or the areas around your bushes do what the pros do.
2) Aim your lights at steep angles. That creates very long shadows. It’s what we can’t see that really counts. Also, don’t use too many lights. One or two is plenty to cover a wide area. You want to cover, not reveal.
3) Continue that ‘theme’ by keeping the wattage low on all lights. That hides detail and adds to the air of mystery. When we can only see dimly, we imagine all kinds of things, especially when there are the right kinds of props and decorations to help our fears along.
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