Mise En Scene Key Elements - Lighting

There are three types of lighting

• Low-Key Lighting 
• High-Key Lighting
• Naturalistic

Low Key-Lighting

GoodFellas-1990

The Low-Key lighting of this specific still shot connotes the sense of being in a club/bar. It also shows the mood of the background which collaborates with their sinister characters in a sinister place.

High-Key Lighting

Napoleon Dynamite-2004