Outline some points you took away from the lighting lecture.

One of the most memorable and useful points I got from the lecture was the power of cutters and blacks. Previously, I had underestimated the utility of using pieces of white or black cardboard to control light, but when they were used to demonstrate how to either increase soft light or take away fill light, it became clear that these little bits of equipment would be invaluable in a film shoot. As Robin pointed out in a tutorial later, if the choice was given between taking extra lights or extra cutters, blacks and C-stands, the latter should be chosen basically every single time.

Another point I found interesting was simply the relationship and contrast between hard and soft light. While I sort of knew what the difference between the two was before, it was useful to see the difference in full effect, when a light was shone directly onto a subject, and then bounced off a cutter onto the subject instead.