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Skills Development
Production
Research
Lighting
Previous experience with lighting.
“TO ME IF THERE’S AN ACHIEVEMENT TO LIGHTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN A FILM IT’S BECAUSE NOTHING STANDS OUT, IT ALL WORKS A PIECE. AND YOU FEEL THAT THESE ACTORS ARE IN THIS SITUATION AND THE AUDIENCE IS NOT THROWN BY A PRETTY PICTURE OR BY BAD LIGHTING”
Roger Deakins - Cinematographer
LOWKEY LIGHTING
lighting makes large, prominent areas dark. This kind of lighting tends to be somber—serious, formal, and dignified in the mood. Low-key lighting requires more side and backlighting.
HIGH KEY LIGHTING
HIGH KEY lighting has an abundance of bright, diffused light, resulting in slow-falloff or flat lighting
HARD LIGHT / SOFT LIGHT You can make any hard light soft by making the source light bigger or by reflecting:
HARD LIGHT
SOFT LIGHT
Bigger light source / Further distance from subject / Using a reflector or diffuser = Softer Light
Smaller light source / Closer distance to subject = Harder Light
The position and intensity of the light can also greatly affect an image and its meaning.
The Inverse Square Law stipulates that should a person (or object) be close to a light source then there is a greater difference in light intensity as that person (or object) moves away.
When the person (or object) is much further away from a light source that object can move much greater distances away from the light before there is a significant drop in the intensity of light.
This effect is most noticeable when using hard lights then that of soft.
THE INVERSE SQAURE LAW
Lighting a subject:
3 point lighting
Split
REMBRANDT
BUTTERFLY
Lighting equipment available in the school
RIM
SWIT 1x1FT
LED PANEL LIGHT
DEDO LIGHT
DIVA400
LED TOP LIGHT
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