Blog Post for Week 8

This week in class we worked on lighting as you can see in the example above. We essentially attempted to create a three point lighting setup that lit up both me and Rosie. However due to equipment constraints we only had two lights to work with.

Originally we had one key light on the left hand side to light both me and Rosie and then we had one light behind to backlight us, using light from the room as fill. However, because me and Rosie we’re standing so far apart we ended up using the two lights as seperate key lights for each of us. The reason we were standing so far apart is because we were also attempting to master focus racking whilst panning. This clip doesn’t show an example of the panning, but rather a shoddy kind of zoom out, to capture both of us within the frame.

The lighting in this clip could almost be described as an extreme style of ‘split lighting’. Where you split the face into two equal halves, with one side being in light and the other in shadow. Often split lighting would be done with a less bright fill, adding some light to the shadowed side of the face, but since we were one light down we had to make do. I think it looks pretty cool, because it’s super dramatic. However, you’d be limited with the number of practical ways that you could utilise it.

 

Until next time,

Louise Alice Wilson