ABSTRACT
It does not matter how firm your grasp of the variety that canbe achieved with simple three-point lighting if you as a lighting artist do not stop to consider the emotional aspects of the story at hand. Knowing all the lighting tricks in the book is all well and good, but without proper considered application, all your technical wizardry will be for nothing. Your lighting needs to operate on an emotional level to do several things: it should illicit a reaction from your viewer that is coherent with the storyline, it should guide the viewer visually to the focal points of a scene, whilst reinforcing the desired atmosphere and providing your audience with clues as to locations and characters. It should do all this whilst emphasizing the three-dimensional nature of your production and helping with the framing and composition of every scene.
