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Lighted vs. Lit: What’s the Difference?

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Verb conjugation is tricky in any language, and English is no exception. Many writers confuse variations of past tense for irregular verbs, like to light .

Lighted and lit are both past tense forms of this verb, but, in some cases, there is a preference for one form over another.

If you aren’t sure whether to choose lighted or lit in your writing, this article will clear up that conundrum for you.

What is the Difference Between Lighted and Lit?

In this article, I will compare lighted vs. lit . I will use each word in a sentence to demonstrate its proper context.

Plus, I will reveal a useful memory trick to help you decide whether lit or lighted is correct, depending on how you want to use the word.

To Light Conjugation

• Past: I lit (I lighted is less common.).
• Present: I light.
• Future: I will light.
• Participle: I have lighted. (I have lit is less common.).

When to Use Lighted

As an adjective , lighted refers to of or relating to being illuminated . Here are several examples of the word lighted as an adjective:

• The happy couple strolled down the lighted path as evening darkened to night.
• Milo the Adventurer led the way with his lighted torch.
• The technician extinguished the lighted fuse seconds before the fireworks started.
• In the dimly lighted space—the windows are shrouded by black curtains—Mr. Copperfield bounded from game to game. – The Wall Street Journal

As a verb , lighted forms the past participle form of the verb light , which means to illuminate or to set something on fire . Here are some examples:

• I have already lighted the fire.
• Have you lighted the gas lamps yet?

Lighted can also be used in the simple past, but lit is much more common today.

When to Use Lit

For example,

• Jackson lit the match on the sole of his shoe, then promptly dropped it into the snow.
• Fireflies lit the meadow with a thousand incandescent freckles.
• Arya lit the candle and said a prayer to the goddess of death.
• As such, the work becomes a reference to Europe’s dark history, and the machines, lit in such a way to create monstrous shadows on the surrounding walls, clatter and screech discordantly. – The New York Times

Before the early 20th century, lighted was the preferred simple past tense of this verb, in addition to the past participle. Today, however, lit is preferred as a simple past.

Trick to Remember the Difference

Both verb spellings are standard in English as simple past and past participle conjugations. As I mentioned above, lit is much more common for the simple past, and lighted is slightly more common for the past participle, but neither is incorrect in either case.

You can allow you ear to guide you for which to choose in your sentence.

If you are using the word as an adjective, however, lighted is generally preferred. Despite popular usage, lit is not a proper adjective.

Technically speaking, the phrase should be well-lighted .

• A well-lighted room.
• A well-lit room.

A helpful mnemonic to remember is that lighted rhymes with benighted , another adjective.

Is it lighted or lit? Both of these words have to do with illumination, but there is a slight difference in how they are used.

Lighted is an adjective, where it means of or related to being illuminated. It is also a verb, where it can function as the simple past and past participle form of the verb to light .

Lit can function as the simple past tense and past participle for the verb to light . Even though it is frequently used as an adjective, this usage is incorrect.

Since lighted rhymes with benighted, another adjective, you can remember to always use it as that part of speech.

Failing that, you can always reread this article for a quick refresher.

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Florida won't light bridges in rainbow colors. So Jacksonville's LGBTQ community did.

• The Florida Department of Transportation decided the Acosta Bridge would be lit in red, white and blue for state government's "Freedom Summer."

So a group from the LGBTQ community and their supporters took the lighting into their own hands by illuminating the Main Street bridge with rainbow lights.

As night fell Friday on downtown Jacksonville, 70 people lined the pedestrian walkway of the Main Street bridge and simultaneously turned on high-powered flashlights that lit the bridge in a ribbon of rainbow colors arching above the St. Johns River.

The display on the eve of Pride Month came after the state Department of Transportation decided the nearby Acosta Bridge would be lit in red, white and blue for state government's " Freedom Summer ," meaning the Acosta's lighting system won't have rainbow lights for Pride Month as it did the previous three years.

"I thought it came off great," said Jacksonville resident Matt McAllister, who helped organize the lighting event that came together in 48 hours.

"We thought we'd get 35 people for the bridge," he said. "We thought that would be a good night — that we'd get a couple of pictures and send them to our friends and say we did something. That this took off in such a way is so pleasing."

The 70 people holding flashlights on the bridge were cheered on by a big crowd watching from the Southbank riverwalk. It was a night of many lights in downtown: Friendship Fountain sent columns of multi-colored water into the air where the crowd watched the Main Street bridge, fireworks went off over the baseball field at the sports complex after a Jumbo Shrimp game, downtown towers had their usual array of decorative lighting, and the Acosta Bridge had red, white and blue lights running down the middle of it.

McAllister said he was in Leipzig, Germany, on a honeymoon with his husband when he learned about the state Department of Transportation's directive for the red, white and blue lights from Memorial Day to Labor Day on all state-owned bridges. That also prevents rainbow lights for Pride Month on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay and the Ringling Bridge in Sarasota .

Hearing the news while he was in a city that used to be part of East Germany, McAllister said he decided when he got back home, it was important to take some action in response to the state's decision on the Acosta Bridge. He said being able to see the Acosta in red, white and blue and the Main Street bridge in rainbow colors at the same time symbolizes that freedom and diversity are not mutually exclusive but actually depend on each other.

"If this is about freedom, let's go exercise our freedom, and that's what is so special about what we did tonight," he said.

As for whether the bridge lighting was a celebration of Pride Month or a protest of the state's decision, he said there was a wide range of views among those who turned out.

"This is definitely a response and more than a response in protest," said Jacksonville resident Jessica Griffith, who watched the lights from the shore with her father. "We're always going to celebrate who we are, welcome others and make sure they know there are safe, wonderful, affirming, embracing places."

She said her father has "always been a huge supporter of me" and they had been trying for several years to do the annual Pride march over the Acosta Bridge. They weren't able to make the marches so when they heard about the Main Street lighting, they went to it.

"It just reflects the joy and authenticity of everyone here," she said.

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Jacksonville resident Sherwin Salla was on the bridge holding an orange-beaming flashlight while he helped coordinate the light display.

"The biggest thing was just showing solidarity and making sure that our freedom is holding," he said. "It was more of a fun celebration to show our community that we still stand strong."

From his spot on the bridge, he couldn't see the impact of the lighting across the span until a friend texted him a photo.

"When I first saw it, you could really tell the colors on the bridge," he said. "It was amazing."

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The "Lights of Moscow" Museum

The picture shows Red Square and the Kremlin lit at night.

This is a panorama shot of Moscow Kremlin and Moskva river in a winter night, revealing the bright illumination of Kremlin wall, towers and orthodox church.

The picture shows a display within the "Lights of Moscow Museum", showing a few different light sources and other documents revealing information about the history of the lights.

This is a closer picture of a few of the lighting sources displayed within the Moscow Lights Museum.

City illumination underwent a particular history in Moscow, especially with the gradual rounds of city-wide lighting following the invention of electricity. Nighttime lighting always held particular symbolic significance throughout each of the different political regimes of the nation, often reflecting the nation’s efforts to assert itself as a modern and global city as well as the class disparity revealed by the uneven reach of service to city residents. Until the 20 th century, much of Moscow’s streets were left dark and unsafe at night, especially with the city’s long winters and short hours of daylight [1] . The invention of the electric light therefore had a “profound effect on Russian cultural consciousness [2] ”, seen as a “transformative force” under Bolshevik ideology and directed to “bring enlightenment to the masses, transforming a peasant culture to a modern industrial society, and asserting new Soviet life in distinct contrast to the “dark kingdom” of the tsarist era” during the 1920’s electrification project [3] . However, Moscow did not become fully electric-lit until the 1930s, and not further expanded to a greater reach until after World War II through gradual rounds of heightened illumination. The 1990’s saw yet another new multimillion-dollar illumination project for the city center that included “bold colored lights and modern designs to give Moscow skyscrapers a strong nighttime presence [4] ”. Today, Moscow has become a “major global twenty-first century “city of light””, a result of a long history of culturally and politically symbolic lightings.

Given such a long and meaningful tradition, the “Lights of Moscow” Museum may be a particularly interesting site to tangibly experience the multiple phases of illumination the city went through. This relatively lesser-known museum reveals the history of street lighting in Moscow, and displays illuminating sources from various points in Moscow’s history. The museum was opened in 1980 and displays a wide range of lighting equipment, including a torch of splinters, hand lanterns and street lamps light fixtures of various shapes and sizes. Street lamps encompass oil, kerosene, gas, and electric lamps, and many of the displayed lanterns still function and may be lighted for visitors to enjoy. The lights are organized into four different halls of the museum’s relatively small interior, with a few decorating the exterior of the museum along a courtyard. Many of the exhibits are interactive for families to enjoy, with a number of friendly museum guides on duty to help lead visitors through the rich history behind Moscow’s city illumination. Given the lights' active usage by and significant meaning for the Soviet state, stepping through the continually evolved light sources from various points in Russian history should provide visitors with a layered presentation of the sociopolitical and technological timeline of the city and state. Each light symbolizes a specific point in history in which it was used, as well as the USSR's position and reputation in the global stage, the nation's technological and industrial progress, the 'status' and needs of the neighborhood that held the light and the nation-wide spirit and ideology that enraptured the population all at that specific moment in history. Whether it is by igniting a kindling or kerosene lamp, or sitting at the outdoor lighting control center that operated in Moscow from 1940 to 1984, a trip to this museum may be a great way to re-experience these various points of Moscow's past within a singular space and time through what were once perhaps seemingly unnoticed and overlooked objects of daily life.

[1]  Buckler, Julie. "Moscow: City of Light and Dark."  Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination . Ed. Sandy Isenstadt, Margaret Maile Petty, and Dietrich Neumann. New York: Routledge, 2014. 123-129.  Google Books . Google. Web.

[2]  See Buckler 124. 

[3]  Vaingurt, 2013 qtd. in Buckler 125.

[4]  See Buckler 126.

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Why are movies so dark these days?

A filmmaker walks us through the reasons behind the ‘dark cinematography’ that’s causing so many complaints

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“ Why is everything so dark in new films? ” has swiftly become one of the most common refrains in the moviegoing world. It first materialized in a big way back during the late seasons of Game of Thrones. Episode after episode, people furiously tweeted about how hard it was to see, well, anything going on on screen. A lot of explanations and theories have flooded the internet since then about a host of “dark” productions, some accurate ( brutal streaming compression , suboptimal viewing conditions ) and some decidedly less accurate. (No, it isn’t to “hide bad CG.”)

The truth can’t be boiled down to any one factor. But one key element has largely gone missing from this conversation: filmmaking choices, and the current trends that have directors producing darker imagery. If streaming compression is a necessary evil of modern distribution, and if viewers will choose to watch movies and shows in suboptimal conditions regardless of the filmmaker’s intent, then why are so many directors, cinematographers, and colorists designing their work in a manner that’s incompatible with how so many people view media nowadays? What benefit are filmmakers getting out of this? The answers are complicated.

And to get to those answers, we have to leave the conversations about technology off to the side. The real answers are based in form — meaning, the visual language of a movie or a show — rather than shallow conversations about which evil modern camera is to blame, or about whether digital cameras handle light differently than film cameras . Tools are just tools. They can be wielded in half a million ways. For every murky, digitally shot, VFX-heavy production, there are others like Mad Max: Fury Road , The Matrix Resurrections , or Avatar: The Way of Water , which rank among the most vibrant and crystal-clear blockbusters ever made. Tools are a vehicle by which to create an image, but at the end of the day, every component of the image on that screen is a choice an artist made.

So why are filmmakers choosing to shoot such dim, hard-to-parse images?

For starters, it’s probably better to view overly dim night scenes as a byproduct of a particular style rather than its central aim. The most recent uproar over a film looking “like that” cropped up on Twitter over the upcoming remake Peter Pan & Wendy , directed by The Green Knight filmmaker David Lowery . Though the unique hideousness of YouTube compression did a number on the photography by Lowery and cinematographer Bojan Bazelli — the version of the trailer on Disney Plus looks significantly better and brighter — it’s still a pretty perfect example of the modern style. Digging deeper into Lowery’s overall style, and where his work exists within the larger continuity of filmmaking trends, can help us better understand how this murky, low-contrast “look” came about.

A key concept to understand in the “Why are modern movies so dark?” debate is “motivated” light. Motivated light sources are those that have a rational, tactile logic within the world of a particular scene: sunlight pouring through a window, or the warm glow of a desk lamp. Un motivated lights are the exact opposite: lighting designed to create a particular stylistic impression that might not have any “real” basis in the context of a scene.

Take, for instance, Wes Craven’s 1996 horror classic Scream — a film often remarked on for just how lit everything in it is at all times. An early scene depicts protagonist Sidney Prescott embracing her boyfriend Billy Loomis in the wake of a terrifying home invasion and her near-death at the hands of a masked killer. After Sidney throws her arms around Billy, Craven cuts to a tight close-up on Billy’s face, which is illuminated by a harsh, ominous, icy-cool light that telegraphs his sinister intentions.

But where is that light coming from? The bedroom they’re in has no lamps switched on. Could it be the moon? Hard to justify, as the only windows in the space are behind Billy, and the light we’re staring at is so much brighter and closer than the moon could ever be. So what on Earth is that light?

The answer is, simply enough, nothing. Craven often didn’t feel any real need to rationalize why a bright light would suddenly appear one second before disappearing again in the following shot. It’s a purely stylistic choice, employed for that one moment to cast doubt on Billy’s trustworthiness in the audience’s mind. It’s an extremely stagey choice that fits neatly within the larger series’ heightened, melodramatic style. Scream wouldn’t really be Scream without it.

The hyper-lit style was a staple of cinematography in American films during the ’90s, and like all trends, it eventually fell out of fashion — in this case, a few years after Scream hit theaters. The 2000s saw filmmakers embracing more directional, shadowy lighting styles, evoking a grittier, more “grounded” aesthetic while retaining a sense of classic Hollywood polish. The 2010s featured another huge shift in style, this time toward hyper-naturalism. Even broad, big-budget blockbusters like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 embraced a look torn straight from indie cinema. Not only are the lights in that film always motivated, they’re realistic .

Where earlier films might have used the presence of the moon or a table lamp to justify much brighter lighting, movies like Deathly Hallows , Interstellar , and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes let the light of a lamp simply look like a lamp . That resulted in darker, more directionally lit sets. In big-budget studio fare, more and more filmmakers began to seek out real sunlight to light a scene — or, at least, lighting equipment that could precisely emulate its texture and quality. Where independent films used natural light to work within budget limitations, bigger films began embracing it for its sense of immediacy and tactility: the feeling of real human beings navigating real human spaces.

Established cinematographers like Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki and Roger Deakins started to lean more and more into this style to wild acclaim, on films like Birdman , Prisoners , and Skyfall . Lubezki, in particular, made headlines for his work on The Revenant , where he used almost no lighting equipment to shoot the incredibly technically complex revenge epic in the Canadian wilderness. He bet an entire film on the sun’s rays, firelight, and the low-light capabilities of a small army of Arri Alexa cameras. The results are striking and visceral in a uniquely modern way. It was a formative experience for many young cinematographers, who realized, “Wait, I can do that too!”

This is the landscape where the current generation of filmmakers cut their teeth — David Lowery being a prime example. Looking at his work, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single light, outside of surreal dream sequences, that isn’t thoroughly, fanatically rooted in the real-world logic of the space it’s set in. He and his most frequent cinematographer collaborator, Andrew Droz Palermo , are practically allergic to even the slightest hint of light that feels “unmotivated” or fake.

And while some might roll their eyes at the literalism of this approach, the power of the results is hard to argue with. Lowery’s films are soft, painterly, and melancholic. They feel as if they take place in the viewer’s own lived memories, rather than a heightened Hollywood fantasy world. Through his methods, he’s been able to make fantastical and strange stories feel tactile and humanist. The look has become Lowery’s calling card, one he shares with a host of other directors with similar sensibilities such as Amy Seimetz ( She Dies Tomorrow ), Jeremy Saulnier ( Green Room ), and Denis Villeneuve ( Dune , Arrival , Blade Runner 2049 ).

But like all styles, the motivated-light style has certain limitations. Those are felt most strongly in scenes that lack a good justification for practical light sources — especially night scenes. Where filmmakers of previous eras would lean on artificial blue-white “moonlight” flooding a dark street or room, contemporary filmmakers with a naturalistic itch can’t always make that approach work for them. In a movie that relies on motivated sources, the intrusion of an obvious film light masquerading as the moon threatens to undermine the audience’s immersion. It simply isn’t part of the film’s language.

So what are the solves? Many filmmakers have opted to stick to their naturalist guns and try to emulate the true-to-life sensation of being stuck in a dark space without sufficient light, forcing the audience to reckon with a dim, hard-to-navigate frame, just like the characters in the story. Others don’t stage scenes in those conditions in the first place, avoiding light-deprived environs altogether.

But the truth is, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to this problem for filmmakers who feel married to an organic style of lighting. There will always be some scenes that will test the boundaries of a filmmaker’s chosen aesthetic, such as the night scenes that many viewers took issue with in that trailer for Peter Pan & Wendy . For the scene where Peter appears in the Darling children’s window, Lowery and Bazelli chose to use Tinker Bell as the main light source.

And yet this also poses a challenge: If Tink is too bright, and the room around her is realistically dark, then the effect could ultimately err on the side of “spooky,” which isn’t exactly fitting for the grand entrance of a certain magical boy from the wonderful world of Neverland. But if the surrounding environs are too bright , they risk no longer looking like nighttime at all. Ultimately, Lowery and Bazelli opted to split the difference, letting Tinker Bell cast a soft glow on other characters’ faces, and leaving the rest of the space fairly dark without being black .

Does it work? It depends on the viewer, as the arguments have made clear. And nobody will be able to speak on this with authority until the film is released at a viable resolution, with its intended final color grade. But the argument can be made — and deserves to be made — that this particular stumbling block is well worth the distinct, of-their-time sensibilities that artists like David Lowery bring to the table.

Rather than insisting on filmmakers bending their work to meet the lowest common denominator — that is, people streaming trailers on their phones via YouTube — we should take their commitment to the naturalistic light style as a demand for viewers to honor the intention of their work, and do the best they can to see movies the way they were intended and designed to be seen: on a good screen in a dark space, either in a theater, on a disc, or via a streaming service that doesn’t destroy their work with oppressive compression algorithms. For people who are really passionate about film as a medium, and respect what a delicate process image-making is, that shouldn’t be too big of an ask.

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The Great Vigil for the D-Day 80th anniversary at Bayeux War Cemetery

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Our events and tributes to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day are underway following the arrival Torch of Commemoration in Normandy, carried by D-Day veterans. This was followed by a service of thanksgiving and Bayeux Cathedral and a stunning tribute to the fallen at Bayeux War Cemetery.

Veterans travelled with the torch from Portsmouth and passed it on to young ambassadors, to symbolise the importance of commemoration for the generations to come.

The momentous occasion follows a series of torch events around the UK, launched in London by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier in May, visiting Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester, and many others before arriving in Portsmouth on Monday.

Following a procession and service of thanksgiving at Bayeux Cathedral this evening, a tribute to the fallen took place at Bayeux War Cemetery in Normandy, also broadcast live to Southsea Common in Portsmouth, featuring stunning lighting and drone displays. 

As darkness fell, each of the 4,600 headstones of those that fell in Normandy were individually illuminated across Bayeux War Cemetery, creating a poignant scene of remembrance. Lights were also be placed by schoolchildren at key CWGC sites across Normandy.

Our President, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, alongside current serving military, led a vigil and moment of reflection focusing on the memories of those who fought and honouring those who never made it home. 

The event featured two emotive and poignant performances from Bayeux War Cemetery accompanied by a seventy-two-piece military band and an eight-person choir.

Award-winning poet, author and broadcaster, Lemn Sissay OBE FRSL, read a newly commissioned poem during the evening vigil. Musician Jack Savoretti also performed a beautiful new arrangement of Soldiers Eye’s, and BAFTA-winning Katherine Parkinson gave a reading of a letter from Captain Derek Taylor to the mother of Bombardier Norman Harry Bottoms of the Royal Artillery. 

Bombardier Bottoms died on 6 June 1944, aged 23, and the letter to his mother – that was read from his graveside – speaks of his “humour and zest for life, keenness of mind and generosity of spirit”.

From 9am on 6th June, the CWGC will lead a service of commemoration at Bayeux War Cemetery, a traditional service of remembrance. A ticketed event, guests will include Second World War veteran Jack Hemmings AFC, descendants of those who fought, veterans’ relatives and members of the public. The service will also feature a fly past by the RAF Red Arrows. 

Our Director General, Claire Horton CBE, said: “We have seen some truly beautiful and poignant ceremonies all around the UK and we give our heartfelt thanks to all veterans, schools and young people for playing such an important role at our Torch of Commemoration events.

“It was very moving to be with veterans and their families as they arrived in France, and to witness the significant moment of them sharing our torch with young UK and France ambassadors. 

“We are incredibly humbled and excited to be marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day with these events, which form a perfect and fitting tribute for veterans and the thousands we commemorate across the region. We truly hope our events will resonate with, inspire and engage people all over the world.”

Mr Sissay said: “I am grateful to be in Bayeux today, with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, to share my poem, “As long as light shines”, and affirm our continued commitment to recognise the sacrifice of the brave soldiers who lost their lives for our freedom.

“Walking in the footsteps of our esteemed war poets, I feel honoured to add my contribution to bring the poetry of conflict to global modern audiences. While we reflect on the lessons we have learnt from the Second World War, and the future our fallen heroes gifted us, I hope my words serve to unite us all in our feelings of both sadness and immense pride.”

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Beacon celebrating 'light of peace' lit in Newport for D-Day 80th anniversary

A beacon celebrating the 'light of peace' was lit at a special ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Newport and District Agricultural Society and Harper Adams University held the ceremony at Chetwynd Deer Park on Thursday.

Designed by the university's engineering students, the beacon was originally designed to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.

It was one of hundreds of beacons and lamp 'lights of peace' which were lit across the country at precisely 9.15pm to commemorate D-Day.

Newport and District Agricultural Society's president, Duncan Gunn-Russell, read an International Tribute as the beacon was lit.

His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Anna Turner, attended the ceremony, as well as the High Sheriff of Shropshire, Brian Welti JP, and representatives of the Newport and District Agricultural Society and Harper Adams University - including engineering students and alumni who operated the Beacon.

Invited guests and family members of those affected by the Second World War or D-Day also attended the event, including the chief cattle steward of the Newport Show, Andrew Macleod, whose father was among those soldiers who took part.

Newport and District Agricultural Society president, Duncan, said: "I’d like to thank everyone, from the Society, Harper Adams, and the wider community, who organised or attended the event.

"The evening was one of remembrance, celebration, and commemoration – and it was quite something to think, at the very moment I read the International Tribute, that hundreds of others were doing so at the same time, as beacons were lit across the country."

Harper Adams University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ken Sloan, added: "In a world in which, sadly, we remain affected by war, we should remember the sacrifices of all those who took part in D-Day and the Second World War, and I was honoured that Harper Adams employees and students were among those involved in the celebration."

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