MDA1300 - Lighting Brief

This is our finished lighting project.

The first scene was filmed using artificial lighting; the second with natural lighting.

I feel that the 2nd (naturally lit) video was done well, as there is slight shadowing on the left side to add depth, and it the light looks a lot like the sort of natural light you get in an early morning (continuing the small story involving the two people drinking before a night out, then drinking coffee while suffering the next morning). The main let down in the second clip, I feel, is the backlight doesn't bring both subjects out as much as it could, only the one on screen left.

While the backlight brings out the subjects in the 1st video (artificially lit) I feel that we could have done something a bit more interesting with the background, like had it blacked out and the subjects lit, using the lights or camera exposure. I feel that the lighting of the background is similar to the first one, just a bit darker. I do, however, like the warmth of the lighting (mainly I think due to the backlight highlighting the subjects,) so perhaps if we'd made the 2nd shot colder lighting, it would have contrasted nicely.

initially there were a few problems with getting the footage off the edit machines, as we had left the default settings when exporting the video. We now know that the default settings are NOT always correct and that we should always manually put the correct settings (720p25, on the HM100 cameras)