The second part of From Director Steven Spielberg’s Supercut trilogy exploring the three core pillars of Spielberg’s visuals looks at his use of light.

Spielberg tends to use three different kinds of light: blue, white, and orange. Generally (though not exclusively) blue and white light denote fear, danger, and loneliness, while orange light represents hope, salvation, and community.

Using John Williams’ ‘The Mothership’ from the Close Encounters of the Third Kind score, and the iconic scene of Barry Guiler opening the door to the aliens in that same film (a moment Spielberg has identified as his 'master image’, an image that captures all his cinema), the supercut runs through some of Spielberg’s most iconic uses of light, and applies them to a Spielbergian narrative that explores darkness and fear before heading into wonder and delight.