Miss Havisham Lighting

In the scene where Miss Havisham walks down the stairs for the first time, the filmmakers used a good contrast of light and dark. Miss Havisham has a white cloud surrounding her, while everything else around her is dark, this technique is called low-key lighting. This scene is shot from a low angle, making Miss Havisham look bigger, more important, and more superior. They emphasise on Miss Havisham, because she is the main character in that scene. Seeing a scene like Miss Havisham walking down the stairs for the first time go from being described in the book beautifully, to seeing it on the big screen left me speechless. While Miss Havisham is walking down those stairs, there’s a white cloud surrounding her, so you’re not really sure what she looks like. Miss Havisham gives off a ghostly glow, that makes you wonder if she’s a ghost, an angel, a goddess..?
Miss Havisham looks dead, withered away. Her hair and skin are white as snow, her lips are dry and cracked, she looks like a skeleton because she’s so skinny. Miss Havisham looks like she’s is living an eternal winter, a cold, icy storm that she can’t get out of - no matter how hard she tries. Miss Havisham is still fully dressed for her wedding; she has on her lace wedding dress, one of her bridal shoes, her veil, even her hair is done up the way it’s supposed to be for her wedding. She is the exact same way she was when she was suppose to get