The class exercise was to make 1 min video, and I cooperated with Jialu, Kris and another girl (sorry I forgot the name). I was the character so I actually didn’t know what happened on the screen when we were in the shooting process. But from the result, it was overexposure. It’s a little bit sad that other groups they have done well on the exposure except us but it’s good to present to the whole studio as an example.
Now as a student in Film light, I need to be more sensitive to lights. Nature light which means sunlight or the reflection of sunlight is the most usual and easy light we can get. To avoid overexposure, mostly the direct sunlight is really bad and unsuggested. In the exercise one part one, here is the screenshot:
Obviously, the exposure part is on my face, the side that face to the window. There are couples reasons, and the first one is the object was too close to the window where the strong sunlight came from. On the one hand, the time we were doing the shooting was almost at noon; on the other hand, the window is on the North side, which means compare to the west side (opposite side of the sun) it has more sunlight.
Robin said we need to learn from experience and practice, and I completely agree with it to some extent. He asked us in class that before we chose a place to shot, do we imagine how it will be looked like on screen (rough meaning)? I remembered that many students they didn’t imagine it. In fact, I understand what Robin means because I am photography, and before I take a photo I will imagine how it looks like in my camera, how’s the structure, and how’s the light.
Light in photography is quite different to the light in the video because the natural light will change quickly in the video. So I think there is another skill we should better have is to calculate how the natural light will change in a place.