This week’s class has been extremely helpful: we had a lighting technician come in and walk us through the studio’s lighting equipment. As I discussed in a previous post, I was rather nervous about my performance as a lighting operator, but I feel much more confident after this week’s tutorial.

We learnt the positioning of lighting equipment in the studio, which can be seen in a picture below.

This scheme is really useful because it provides a visual map of all essential lights, which are quite hard to pin down by just looking at them in the studio. It also illustrates which number stands for which light, and it helps to operate the lighting panel. I was also pleasantly surprised by how many lighting options that panel provides: it has dozens of effects colours and positions available. I don’t think we will be using a lot of them, but it’s still nice to know that you have that option.

It was also an interesting experience to learn to adjust the cameras with a long stick: I imagined they were all remotely operated.

Overall I feel more ready for the filming day, but there is definitely room for improvement.