Golden Hour: reasearch

 Golden-Hour in Filming:

Golden hour is a time of day when the sun's light is in the perfect position to the sun perfect for filming. These times are at the first and last hours of day light. This can exaggerate the natural high lights and shadows. In this blog, I will learn how to plan to use golden hour so in the next post I can practice how to use it properly. This all according to When is Golden Hour? How to Capture the Perfect Light. This is a tight window to film so pre plan to the practice is important. 5 Tips to Film Golden Hour | No Film School state the same things as the first source to create synthesis:

• Look at the surrounding in the time window 
• to judge the sun effect on shot
• Watch out for glare of the sun
• Check weather for clouds
• Experiment

Golden-Hour/Sun Sets External Meaning

In multiple medias forms a sunset usually indicates the end of the film. This could set up a book end for our film, if we wanted, but sunsets also represent the ending, of life. As day which mean life in western cultures. Which can be seen in the day of the dead celebration. This further the correlation with death. The sun set also cast striking shadows and after the sunset is night, both represents darkness, cold and death.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

The final scene of Rogue One ends on a beautiful golden hour or sunset in the case before special effects took place. This however let their story end, with their death to continue the one of The Resistance. Even if our films share little to no genre. The symbolism still takes place to adapted into our film.

Why Does This Matter to Our Film?

Our film, which takes place at sunset dictates that we need to be aware of the sun while filming. So, I wanted to take advantage of the sun while filming and how to work around it. So, why not use golden hour?

My Personal Take Away:

The use of the sun in film is vital in symbolism and enhancing the quality of a film that I would like to implement even if it requires better quality.