Goal – Students will discover the importance of lighting and how to better control the lighting of an environment or the lighting within an environment
What you see is what you get, unless of course you cannot see what you are getting. In video it is easy to make the common mistake of lighting assumption: ‘My eyes can see things well, therefore this will make a great shot.’ A filmmaker must always be aware that no camera has the ability to take in as much information as the human eye. The best that can be done will only be done with assistive lighting and lighting tools.
For this journal entry you will need to write a description of how you would use a 3 light kit or our existing studio lighting to light an interview or a special guest on a talk show. Find an image online to reference with a link or describe the setup in thorough detail. Draw or explain how the lights are positioned and why they are positioned in this way.
Read the article “Light Right – A Crash Course in Lighting Video” (http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=12800456) for in depth information on lighting. Search google and youtube for help with lighting as well.
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Due on Wednesday 10/14
4 comments:
In an interview or anything like that, lights are important to give shadow, and realistic display. Ligths will show the dark and light parts of skin and give texture also. if lights are not postioned correctly shawdows can appear where you do not want them. One light will not light up your persons face without natural lights. That is why there are three. You put one light to the left of the camera out of veiw (Double Check to make sure the camera doesnt see the light). This gives a shadow to the right of screen. To eliminate that put one light on the right side of peson. (Make sure both lights are aimed at the talent). Now you have a shawdow behind the talent. To get rid of shawdows all together place a middile light. To do this raise a light over the camera behind the camera. Make sure that the light is directly faced at your talent's face between a 45 and 75 degree angle. To bright? If your talent is to birght use an umbrella and put it in front of the two side lights. Now you will have a less lighter person. Check if your talent is blinded by any light, if so use umbrella. This will help create a good interveiw/video.
To light a room for an interview using three point lighting, here is how I would start. First, I would position the first light at about 45 degrees to the front of the subject. I would also attach an umbrella to the light for a softer glow. The next step is to position the next light at about the same angle to the other side in front of the subject, but a little further away. This is so the light is balanced on both sides and there are no shadows. Last, to make it so that the person does not blend into the background, I would add a light behind the subject, and make it high to give the person no shadows and make them stand out from the background.
For more information, visit these links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkraDXWdib0
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Melanie Schaefer
to light a room for an interview, you will need to know how to use 3 point lighting. the first light is called the key light which is usually placed between 15-45 degrees either to the right or left of the subject. the second light is called the fill light which is softer than the key light but helps define more distinct actions of the subject, this light is often placed on the opposite angle of the key light.the last light is called the backlight, this light goes behind the subject and makes a bright line around the edge of the subject to separate them from the background.
http://www.3drender.com/light/3point.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBEVeLxXuok
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nicole santolucito
To light our existing studio room, we need certain kind of lights for an interview. For an interview we might want to use the umbrellas that shadow the light. The light may cast a shadow towards the person being interviewed. Their might also have to be a light towards the interviewer, with an umbrella. Usually in the studio, the lights would be facing toward them set up near the cameras. In this case, the lights have to be set up closer towards the interviewer and interviewee to not cast any shadows towards the background. The shadows from the lights, would be cast out of the camera shot. The camera would be set in the middle, as you can see in the picture. Lights are very important to filming. The camera corresponds to the lights differently than our eyes do ourselves.
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Erin Johnson
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