Friday, 12 October 2012

Lighting lesson notes

In class we were shown videos to help us with lighing our own music videos:

The main aim of this video is to create a performance shot that is very stylized, it is a simple shot of an artist singing and playing a guitar.
There are three main styles of lighing:
-stylized(used in music videos and some films)
-naturalistic
-minimalistic(available light)

-They use the lights to change the contrast and move the light around to find a position where the light and the shadow look good.
-They use one light to light the artists face and another light behind to separate the shadow on the artists face from the background as they were blending together. (so the artist stands out, therfore the shot has more depth)
-They add light behind the artist that don't actually add light but they help give extra contrast to the shot, they then add streak filters which help to create extra streaks
-They then put the camera on a dolly to add some movement to the shot
-They then added some fairy lights in front of the camera and put them out of focus to add a more romantic kinf of feel to the shot, it also adds depth to the shot




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