Film Language: Lighting

This image uses low-key lighting, from the left side of her face is the key light. There is not much filler light, which creates a mysterious atmosphere. Also, there is back lighting, which suggests that this might be film-noire genre. 

This image also uses low-key lighting, which again creates a mysterious atmosphere. Top lighting is used here to emphasise her beauty and is used in glamorous and  romantic movies.  

This image is high key lighting as there are more filler lights used and key lights. This may be to give a natural look to the image. Furthermore, there is top lighting being used in this image to create a dark shadow under his eyes, which makes him look quite evil/ intimidating.

This image uses low-key lighting as most of this image is blackened. The right of his face is lighted by the key light. In addition, you can see the rain the background, which suggests that there is back lighting being used to make the rain show up in this shot.

The key lighting is coming from the left as her face is lit up. This image uses low-key lighting as there is a shadow on the wall, which creates a dramatic element and feel to this image. This image uses chiarocuro. 

This is an example of high key lighting. Although this image is quite dark and has some shadows on the mans face of the blind, it is natural light. The contrast between light and dark is much less pronounced, this is how we can tell this image is high-key.  

This image is just uses back lighting as silhouettes have been created. The overexposed background can also tell us that this image uses back lighting.

This image is low-key lighting as silhouette are also created and there is a clear contrast between light and dark. The key light is on the left side of her face. And there is hardly any filler light. This creates a dramatic and mysterious feel to the image.

This image is an example of high-key lighting as there are no shadows projected on the wall behind him. It is also very natural and looks like he is outside. There also might be a top light used in this image as there is a shadow where his neck is.

This image uses low-key lighting. There is a back light used to create a silhouette. There is also a key light coming from the right side of his face as this side is lit. This image is very dark, which creates a  creepy and intense atmosphere.

This image uses high-key lighting as it looks like it has been taken at night, which in that instance high-key lighting is used to give it a natural feel. The key light is projected from the bottom left corner as his arm is very overexposed and also there is a shadow on the wall.