Lighting Lesson

Lighting Lesson

1st example
In this video we got shown how to use contrast & colours through lighting. 
'love like you'

• Basics - This is basically how to light an artists face in the video in order to look professional and captivate the audience through lighting. It creates a stylised effect that throws the back ground into darkness. The demonstration showed to use light from the left of camers or 2 lights to key the only light seen through the camera on the face, then one behind artist on right side of the camera. 
• We also got shown how to put lights behind the artist & use streak filters. You can put black tin foil around lights to create shapes of lighting. eg. triangle for a pointy light. A camera on a dolly moving left to right works well with lighting in this style as the focus stays on the artist however it adds a bit more detail to the setting. 
• The last demonstration in this video was how to light by using fairy lights. wrap & lay them infront of the camera lens but take them out of focus and focus on the artist. This gives a really professional feel to the filming & it doesnt look like fairy lights at all.
• This video really inspired me & gave me ideas of how we should light our music video - I think we would definitely use the basics of just shining a light from the left of the camera onto the artists face in a blackroom as we will have lots of scenes of the artist lipsyncing. I also think we will use the lighting with the fairy lights as its so effective & gives a intimate & personal feel to the scene, this relates to our lyrics very successfully as they are also intimate & emotional. 

2nd example

Oregon Filmaker - This type of lighting style created a really unique feel which is really successful however i dont think we would use this, the pop ballad genre doesnt follow this convention of lighting at all, furthermore this style of lighting seems quite complicated to set up. 

• Use a fish eye lens on camera
• Put softbox above head
• film this scene
• then edit to speed up & slow down

3rd example

This video was definitely the most interesting. It included so many different ideas & lighting styles out of one technique. I think we will use this technique of lighting in our music video as its conventional throughout the pop genre & is really common in music videos in general. I feel we can easily achieve this homemade lens flares style of lighting.

• This video showed us how to make a homemade lens flare. Lens flyers are expensive therefore these are custom. 
• use plastic packaging 7X7 cm square cut out
• fit it into your lens
• scratch surface of filter in any way. crosses, lines, stars, horisontal, vertical (3 point star = 3 different directions)
• use rubber band & secure over front of lens
• film in complete darkness with lens on, then stand in the distance with a torch & the scratches in the plastic pick up the light creating a unique successful effect.