The two modern styles of using light are

The two styles of modern lighting are: dramatic light effects and natural light effects.

Theatrical light effects, emphasizing the shaping of characters, the rendering of the environmental atmosphere, focusing on the use of light to reveal the inner emotions of the characters as well as the use of light to express the author's feelings, is the use of light means to achieve a specific theater, painting modeling intentions of the lighting method. It is evolved from stage lighting, and its aesthetic standard is based on the scale of theatrical beauty and painting beauty, and it is closely related to the history of plot film, star system and black-and-white film. Episodic films require light to express dramatic time and atmosphere.

Natural light effect, refers to a method of using light with documentary beauty. The essence is to enhance the realism of the use of light. That is, according to the script provides the day, night, dusk, dawn, rainy, sunny and other time conditions, the lighting means processing, faithfully reproduce the real natural light effect. Can't shoot the cloudy day into a sunny day effect, true reproduction of the nature of the light source, brightness relationship, color relationship. This is the mainstream of the current film and television art with light.

Traditional light effects that footlight, top light, etc. is ugly image of the light effect, but the natural light effect method that they are real life in a specific environment presents a specific light effect, can be used to enhance the sense of reality on the screen. Natural light effect method can be used to use the foot light, top light to ugly image can also beautify the image, breaking the traditional use of light fixed concept, so that the light effect to obtain a variety of meanings of the performance function.