New year, new studio. First of all, I was excited to study this course because as long as the movie-related topics I like. For this course, I would like to develop an ability of control lighting in everywhere, to exactly know what the exposure is and adjust the aperture. From the last class, I recognized that the lighting is not a simple thing like we seen all day. It was a little complicated, we should know where the light direction from when we are filming. And I think different angles light could shape the characters facial features and inside emotion.

In the first class, we were enabled to take camera and tripod to shoot a single-shot, which is an interview with a fellow group member. In this process, we noticed that there should be a distance between the subject and camera, and also set up the subject position, so that we could put the sunlight properly to the subject face. The result was great, we did good exposure and we can see clearly on the screen, the sunlight across the window and it puts to the human face. There is a triangle shadow between the eyes and noise. Also, the background and subject have a contrast which stresses the key to the image. In the second class, we’ve watched some movies which produced by last century. I guess that is the beginning of the film light. We learned some terminology words for film light, like the soft light, hard light, key light, fill light, side lit, front light and back light. We also talked about the aperture, the high aperture needs more light, low aperture needs little light. I guess the next step we would learn how to shoot people with different angles from lighting sources.

I’ve watched a movie named Schindler’s List which filmed by Steven Spielberg.

This scene is in a church. People are not allowed to do business in the street, so they go to church pretend to pray but for business. In the image, these two guys don’t know each other.
The protagonist wants to buy some merchandise from the people behind. I guess there are two light sources. The main light is from the seller’s head top, and it’s hard light as well. We could see the hard light shoot their shoulder and sleeve, it is very bright. Another light source is on the left of the image, that is the soft light because the seller’s face shot Black and white by soft light. I guess the reason for light setting is to present a kind of insight emotion because this is illegal. He was thinking to do or not. Also, there are shades of the face which causes a kind of tension. The protagonist’s face has more brightness that means he doesn’t scared of the rules.

I like this painting because the light is strong and it shoots more shadow of subjects.
The light hits the statue at a low angle causing the statue to reflect the shadow on the wall. Here represents the mystery of the statue, but also expressed the statue is great in the woman’s heart.