This week, we did an exercise experimenting in mixed colour temperature, and to observe the effect of changing lighting conditions on a subject as they move from one space to another. Our group selected a hallway in building 9 where the subject (Tash) walked down a corridor top-lit by hard LED lights and through a door which is top-lit by colour alternating lighting. By contrast, this lighting is fairly soft, and the purple colour of the lighting at the time softly illuminates her, particularly the right side of her body where the light is coming from. The colour choice itself is hideous and makes for a truely disgusting looking shot in my opinion, but thats beside the point to what we’re doing. To me, the purpose of the exercise was to understand even the subtlest of changes in colour temperature effect the continuity of a scene, particularly when moving from one location to another in one shot such as the subway scene in The French Connection. It demonstrates how lighting reacts on a subject based on the conditions being worked in, weather naturalistic or artificial. Moreover, as The French Connection taught me, it opened my eyes to the creative possibilities of manipulating colour temperature to show the difference in spacial conditions, and how this effect is interconnected to the movement of the subject within the space, such as the transition from the street to subway lighting in the aforementioned film. After speaking to Tash, James, and Chloe, it is clear that we all share an interest in wanting to continue experimenting with colour temperature in assignment 4. As of this stage, we plan to meet up next Monday the 23rd to shoot our first project into the effects of colour temperature on scene ambience and mood. On Thursday we constructed a scene in the dark and attempted to make the scene appear to be lit by a single desk lamp. It taught me a lot in terms of just how many ways there are to light a scene and the unique challenges that present themselves by simply chooisng to artificially light something. I have no doubt we will face simillar problems on Monday.