Kelvin degree was introduced in terms of colour temperature. Tungsten light is set to 3200k which is redder and warmer while daylight is cooler and bluer and set to 5600k. We completed exercise 4 which was a small film called “Emmaline Dreams of Playtime” last Thursday to practice our learning about light and colour and run a shooting in our own way.  Our group set up two tungsten lights in oder to achieve the effects of “the window” and “sun coming out of the window”. The key light was covered in a blue gel and a laptop  was manually held and moved in front of the light to create the motion of “sunlight”. The fill light was setting up with its direction heading toward the projector on the ceiling. The use of this light was to fill the shadow of the main characters so that it was bounced in order to avoid overexposure. I learnt from Robin that there is only one light being used normally, too many lights may cause more problems. During the rehearsal, we tried to set our camera at the back of the class to avoid the window behind being shot in the camera. However, it was not good as we would like to involve the filed of view of the class in the background.

From my point of view, the final result of the lighting was fine before “the sun came out”. The “sun” effect created by us was a bit dramatic and very artificial which was not convincing. I found the light too bright and I was overexposed in the camera. I will suggest the colour of the real sunlight will be warmer and redder compared to our artificial sunlight. I had an idea that we may try to take off the blue gel and give it a go to see whether it helps. As an actress in the shooting, I discovered myself getting tired gradually after few tries and missed the right time to look out of “the window”. I have to say that performing is a lot more difficult than I thought. Professional actors and actresses need to be careful to many things during their performances.