Question 1

I was unable to attend the lighting lecture due to illness but from what Robyn has taught me in tutorials I have learnt various amounts in respect of balancing and toning. We learnt that is very important to balance your light when it comes to your subjects as failure to do so can leave unwanted shadows and dims in the wrong places on your subject and around the set. These issues seem superficial but in the final product you don’t want to be sending any subconscious messages to your audience that are only there because of lack of consideration of the cinematic references your light may give.

In one of our tutes we did a practice scene shot with every one in their respective roles and from that I learnt how important reflection and time of day are in terms of natural and artificial light. For the same reasons as you need to balance your lighting, the time of day is vital for your shots as it is one obvious factor that the audience can immediately pick up on and for that reason it’s important to carefully choose your set and time of day when shooting particular scenes.

I think this content is relevant to our project, not so much that we’ll use it practically but just that we have it in mind. It’s always important to consider everything when filming your shots and lighting is definitely one that plays a huge role in the portrayal of your characters. Lighting was an issue in a couple of sour scenes where natural light and reflections became an issue that were very obvious on camera. We used the small tips we’d learnt in tutorial to counter act and balance that natural light in the frame and these tips also helped us re-asses a camera angle when there wasn’t much we could do otherwise.