Summary of what is happening before the scene I am analysing.
Cobb and his team are in the dream world, in 3 levels. A rainy day in Los Angeles, a hotel room and a snowy mountain fortress. In the scene i am looking at, the hotel is dreamed by Arthur. On this level, the extractors recruit Fischer, convincing him that his kidnapping was orchestrated by Browning and that they are Fischer's subconscious protectors. They persuade him to go down another level to explore Browning's subconscious (whereas it is actually a ruse to enter his own). The scene i will be looking at goes from 1:37:55 where the team have been put to sleep and are going into the snowy level dream.
Lighting
After putting everyone to sleep, Arthur in charge of keeping security away has the job to lead them on what he descibes 'a merry chase' to keep them away from the hotel room. The hotel room's lighting is quite dim, it is lit by few ceiling lights and mainly lamps and wall lights. This gives the room a darker tone to it, maybe a nice lighting to fall asleep in?
The room shakes, this is from disruption in the first level, where Yusuf and the sleeping team are now being chased. They are in an outside setting which means it is using natural lighting, in this instance it is grey and foggy with mild/heavy rain.
Arthur then packs a briefcase on the bed with brown covers. He leaves the room and enters the corridor which has brown walls and tan coloured pillars with small wall lamps on. I think this was done to match the rooms theme and it was used purposely to be dim lighted, to create a sleepy, relaxed sort of look to assist the fact that it is a dream.
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