Question 7

Please outline some points that you took away from the Lighting Lecture. Points that excite you, something that was completely new to you, perplexes you or even one you take issue with.

I am very interested in how to adjust the lighting in the set. The measure of soft or hard light depends on the degree of shadows on character’s face. Hard light creates a significant shadow as soft light generates less. Additionally, if we were in a situation that we are only equipped hard lights set, we can use a cutter or a whiteboard to make a soft lighting. The technique is called as bounce lighting. We are able to operate a hard lighting to a whiteboard and the light will be reduced by bouncing on a board to the character.

Question 8

Please insert the link for your Lenny ex2 here. (use insert link tool)

List the things that you learnt from this experience – this could be things that went well or not so well.

Generally, I had a good experience from Lenny ex2. Before shooting in the day, I draw a storyboard and made a shortlist in order to we can process easily. Storyboard and shortlist are not only a brief draft of images but also those are highly dependent on the communication between cinematographer and director moving on the same pages.

“Calling the shot” is excellent knowledge for me to understand how to start filming. In my opinions, this process would be the best way to communicate with different roles of the film producing. To make sure every one have high regard for a shooting, cinematographer, director, sound recorder, First AD and actors have to give a specific signal to each other. I had so much fun in this process and I really learnt something from there.