Light Source: Sound and Light Shows
Does your story need a police cruiser, a speeding train and a space ship? How about a nice little nuclear blast? With lighting, you can create spectacular elements with little or no budget. How? By keeping the expensive or impossible stuff off-screen and helping the audience imagine it. (That's why sound is so important to the illusion that we've given it space in our title.) The key to the whole process is a corollary of the first great law of the video universe:
If you imply that something outside the frame exists, then it does exist.
The Basics of Lighting Effects
Whether you're faking a cheery fire or an atomic fireball, there are three keys to creating off-screen lighting effects:
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