Exercise One, Part Two
In class 3, we did another exercise on lighting. The above two images are the snapshots of our interview. The lighting condition was again limited to natural sunlight(soft light) in the classroom. But for the equipment, we then had black and white reflectors.
Take a look at this shot, we can see that the light originally came from both the left and right direction. We decided to use only the light coming from her right side so the set-up was to put one black board on her left side to block the light from her left and any reflected light. Another white board was placed right in front of her to bring a bit more light on her face.
By the look of our final outcome, I say it is a mid-key shot. The soft light wrapped around her face with a distinguishable darker side. The color of it appears cool, not warm. The shadows and the highlights look pretty even.
I personally like how we did the lighting for her. So what I think we could’ve done alternatively was just to try different types of set-ups of lighting. Compare to part one of this exercise, I find the importance of recognizing the light coming from many directions: the reflected, and the direct ones. By doing that, we can take more control over light, making decisions on different ways of set-up.
Class 4
The Wednesday’s class was most interesting. We watched clips of movies to analyze their lighting and how the cinematographer shot it. Then we spent the rest of the class going through the basic three-point lighting. I was quite intrigued when Robin pointed out the classical Hollywood way of using the fill light for three-point lighting. There’s no one absolute way of a good lighting, but many preferred ways.
To follow from the concept I learned last year, I want to write a list of things that I learned this week:
light, long take, distortion, depth of field, Dedolight, spotlight, In the City of Sylvia, focal length, three-point lighting, the feeling when you are the actor sitting in front of many artificial lights, reflectors, camera sensor, ampere, soft light, hard light, 240V, aperture, teamwork, the lens eye and the human eyes, perception, contrast, manipulation, key, fill, back, imitation, reproduction…
