In Tuesday’s class, we put our theoretical understanding of lighting into practice as we attempted to light and shoot a scene to the demands of a script in which the sun rises and cascades light into the classroom. We were encouraged to experiment and consult with the limitless possibilities for how we could light the scene using what we had at our disposal. The effect of this was that I found encouraged to look beyond the constraints of the rooms lighting environment and mold them into strengths. For example, we found that the fill side of the two subjects was rather dark when the key light, being a lamp with a blue gel over it to convey sunlight was switched on. One solution to this was to use a white bounce board off to screen right to reflect some of the natural light coming through the windows back onto the fill side of the subjects for reduced shadows. However, when the subjects were exposed to the artificial key light, this would create an undesirable increase in bounce light on the fill side, and the light gradient as the sun rose would also be apparent on the fill side which is not its source. To counter this, we positioned another artificial fill light with a blue gel on the fill side of the subjects facing up and reflecting off a white panel back into the subjects for a similar effect to a bounce board, whilst making the changes to the lighting on that side of the face more subtle and therefore realistic. The framing of the shot also established that there was significantly more room screen right out of frame, in which variation on the fill side would indeed be more subtle as light has a greater distance to travel and reflect off. As the gaffer, I was able to apply this newly developed knowledge into lighting a scene and I found it extremely thought-provoking and enjoyable all the variants that go into choosing to light for achieving both creative and technical purpose