Lighting Lecture

First of all, I realised at the lecture that I do not know which way the sun rises and which way it sets let alone which direction our location faces.

I suppose lighting is a bit like sound, unless you are made conscious of it, it may go by relatively unnoticed in simply watching a film.

Making a film though, is very different.

For example, I never thought shooting a film, in the middle of the day in a suburban household would require much focus on lighting, however after the lecture I realise this is not the case. There is a large window behind my bed. I never considered this as a bad thing, just a window. But I now understand that the window could ruin the film as, depending on the time of day, our character could be a silhouette.