Group 3 Project

In the following two clips we as a group came to an agreement to the scenes that exemplified key differences between night and day scenes from the famous television show Seinfeld.

This first clip shows indoor lighting inside Jerry's apartment during the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkpvON6IpNs

In the scene we just watched we see the first shot coming from outside the apartment and the light from outside which lets the audience know the time of day.

When it cuts to inside the apartment it is brightly illuminated. The overall interior lighting is rather flat with soft elimination of falloff shadows.

The scene also has a great amount of lighting which illuminates the room including the background.

During the duration of the scene we notice the window in the back of the shot showing light from outside. This exterior light brings brightness into the apartment and creates a daytime feel for the audience.

The next scene we analyzed was in the same setting, Jerry's apartment at night. This scene exemplifies many differences in the lighting compared to the daytime scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkpnOTr8k9I

This particular scene portrays nighttime based in the lighting provided. The lamps are used as a dramatic agent. They create an aesthetic intensifier for the scene. The lamps are also on which creates an abundant amount of differently sized shadows.

It is a dark style of lighting inside the apartment. The nighttime lighting utilized by the directors in this scene has more specific and selective fast-falloff illumination.

Most of the lighting in this scene comes from inside the house because there is no light coming from the window since it is dark out. This is very differently from what we saw in the day time scene.

The shadows that appear on Kramer's face is slow fall off which means that the shadows are highly diffused by floodlight which produces little light and creates a transparency effect on the shadow.

Both scenes have windows which is key when determining the time of day. The windows makes it simple to determine the time. In comparison, the night scene we have no light coming from the window unlike the daytime scene.