![]() Glow sticks: Portable and versatile, these cheap glowing wands can be wrapped in transparent fabric, adding mystery to a shady background.įake blood: What is a creepy image without blood? You can buy affordable fake blood, but it is also easy to make with corn syrup, water and food coloring. ![]() Glow-in-the-dark paint: Create ghostly effects by dabbing this paint on your scene elements, such as painting an actor’s hand then covering it in cheese cloth for a phosphorescent glow.įog machine: This little box can create an eerie outdoor scene in a dark alley, or emulate smoke surrounding a silhouetted character. October is a great time to pick up items at Halloween stores for cheap special effects. Note that while work lights are great for low budget film and photography projects, you cannot attach gels or gobos to them. If you want to really save money and get started right away, pick up a high wattage work light at a big box store like Home Depot for about $80. Gobos are essentially a stencil with a cutout pattern for creating shadows and shapes when attached in front of the light. Gels are a tough, flexible film used to cover the light lens to change the color temperature. One advantage to a light like this is flexibility to add gels and gobos for more spooky effects. Special effects lighting on the cheap: For a semi-professional look, you can pick up spotlight, such as the Came-TV Pro 1000W Fresnel Tungsten Light for less than $200 (without stand). Shadow Lighting: Prominent shadows are created by using harsh lighting, with no fill, to light a subject. Because we cannot see details such as facial features and clothing, our mind fills in the details. Silhouette: With a silhouette, the subject is placed between the bright light and viewing area, creating just a dark shape. Uplighting: Placing a bright light below a subject will create deep shadows on faces that don’t normally occur in nature, creating an alarming effect. Shooting outdoors at night is another option, but is a little harder to control the elements. To DIY these techniques, find a dark space, or one where you can control existing lighting, such as covering windows. Special effects lighting, such as uplighting, silhouette and prominent shadow lighting, does not use balanced lighting, which distorts the scene. The common thread among scary lighting effects is that they distort reality in some way, creating shadowy mystery.Ī normal scene is well-lit using at least three points of light-a background light, a highlight on your subject and a fill light to eliminate shadows. Many of the following tips use the same techniques as the great filmmakers, replacing certain elements with common, affordable items. What makes movies and horror images so scary is special effects, and you can get some pretty cool DIY results without a big studio budget. Oddly enough, we welcome these emotions, especially around Halloween, watching scary movies and sharing pictures of eerie home décor. Shadowy scenes and scary noises spark our imagination, bringing on a feeling of fear.
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