Macro, sand, insects.
Try to use only on-set light, (or just fill the light with a dark tone???), so some scenes in the room are relatively dark, and a scene where the male lead escapes is simply dark.
Force men and women to ML in public, drum beats, close-ups of torches, and several lighting methods for the wizard's face (side lighting, from bottom to top), and make a light strip on the ground.
The female protagonist's nudity, the contoured light of the human body, is very artistic.
Shooting an action from multiple angles, the actor throws a rivet
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