Okay I’ll go part by part. Lighting is extremely beneficial in a film because it contributes to the film’s overall mood, makes the actors look better or worse depending on how the director wants it and lights up dark scenes so viewers can actually see what is going on in a shot. The person in charge of lighting is usually the cinematographer. Sometimes they use different color lights or place a special paper that is similar to colored seram wrap over a light to make a scene seem more romantic or scary or depressing. Light is often manipulated to look like natural light coming in from the windows when they are actually shooting on a set.

Scoring is super super important for a movie because this can make or break a movie. If you ever watch a scary movie without the sound, you will see how less scary it is. It lets the audience know how they are supposed to feel. Sometimes the scoring is used as motif to express a continuing theme throughout the movie like in Jaws music and the Psycho screech sounds and Scarlet’s theme in Gone with the Wind. Is it romantic? Is it depressing? Is it exciting? The music lets you know and is put in charge by a composer and sometimes the director.

Sound is different from scoring because it is dealing with all of the non-musical components of the overall audio. This means voices and background noise. Most sounds like footsteps, door creaks, glasses tinkling in a restaurant are put into the movie in a studio after the shooting. You might want to look up what these people are called because I forgot. There are also sound librarys that filmmakers can go to and rent sounds to input into their movie. The sound from on the set is picked up from boom mikes or little microphones attached to the actors.

And lastly set design lets the viewer know where the scene is taking place, what kind of situation they are in and sometimes lets us know about the character. If a character’s room has deerheads and guns all around, we can assume that he is a hunter. If the set is at cemetary then we can assume that the character is in a scary situation.

All of these things help us to know what the overall mood is of the film and lets us know which emotion we are supposed to be feeling. If you go to many places outside the US, they like American films and they know what is going on even though they do not understand the language because they go through a range of emotions just based on how these components are put together to make one movie.