lighting style

Today was good.  I'm excited for tomorrow, when I expect I'll get to the trickiest shot of my film: the hanging.  More on that to come Wednesday.  Right now I'd just like to highlight the shift in lighting style that my movie is undergoing at this point.  By now, we've gotten through the golden years of boyhood and adolescence for our main character, leaving him a twisted example of a full-grown human being.  I'm underscoring this shift in character with a similar shift in lighting.  While earlier I used more low-key lighting to eliminate harsh shadows on my puppets, now I'm using high-key lighting, which is all bright highlights and black shadows, with very few tones in between.  This stark, ugly look gives a sense of seediness and evil - that's why it was the lighting style of choice in old film noir movies like Touch of Evil.  So, that's the general trend of the lighting in my movie.