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The opening scene slowly fades in from black and focuses on the candle. Here we see the intensity of light used to create a quiet and peaceful scene. Almost as if the candle is projecting the light.

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The next scene focusses on the toaster and serves as sort of a transition into the more obvious morning light that will follow. In this shot we utilized both shape and contrasting intensity to help define the toaster.

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The early morning scene, 8:00am. Several properties are utilized to help create this scene...the shape of the light through the gobo suggesting light shining in through a window, the warm, golden color of the light also suggest the time of day, the direction of the light also helps to create the illusion of early morning sunlight. This is also the first of a series of three shots that set up the movement portion of the entire piece as we watch the shadow cast by the window gradually move accross the space.

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Later in the morning, 10:30am. We see the shadow moving accross the scene suggesting the movement of the sun accoss the sky. Also the color is a little less rich in color,although still somewhat yellowish and warm, and intensity has increased slightly.

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Noon. The shadow has shifted to a much higher angle, the color has become cooler, with a very slight blue tint to it and again the intensity is increased.

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From the noon scene we move to much later in the day and perhaps even evening. The warmer more rounded out lighting utilized in this scene is more indicative of interior light sources as opposed to sunlight. The mood shifts to a "quieter" scene with use of more diffuse fill lighting to help define shapes of the objects.

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This is our example of the commonly used lighting approach called zone lighting. The technique consists of lights positioned at various angles all from either hard stage right or stage left with no front lighting to fill in shapes. The result is a very dramatic scene with dark contrasting shadows that conceal large portions of the scene. The table is reduced to a simple "floating board".

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Moving to night time utilizing cool blue colors at lower intensity to make this suggestion.

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Another example of color, this time used to highlight a specific element of the composition, the bottle on the left.

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In this scene we see shape utilized in the use of the fog to acentuate the beam of the light.

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