Side Scroller Black Lighting

Development Rendering
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So if I was to create a side scroller and I wanted the lighting to be completely black on the objects close to the camera to achieve a look like this:

http://i.gyazo.com/b1064ead9be5ac653d57f0cdbb5eeffa.gif

As you can see all the objects close to the camera appear completely black, but whenever I try to achieve this result the light bounces on them. Is there some sort of light blocking volume? Or is there another possible way to achieve this?

Thanks in Advance!

2

If you have a plane facing away from the camera (that has its back face culled), it could block the light for you.

3

What I did with my game In UDK was put a hidden box/mesh in front of the area that you want to be very dark or black. Lighting will not bounce around in there and cast a dark shadow there.