MDA1300 - Week Four

Lighting Workshop

This week we learned about the three point lighting system, with the key light, fill light and the backlight.

We learned how to safely set up, use and dismantle the lights, and also about the use of gels to give warm or cold lighting. The white balance function on the camera was also discussed alot; how you can use it in conjunction with the ligths to get many natural and unnatural lighting effects.

I found this very interesting as I had not really known a lot about the white balance function before, or how to use it as efficiently as I now feel I can.

I definitely feel that lighting has been teh most challenging aspect of film production we have covered so far, mainly because I am unfamiliar with the equipment, so find it challenging to use efficiently.
I hope that as I undertake more projects, I will get better at using the equipment and m ability to use the equipment to light a scene will increase.

For this week's brief we are to shoot the same scene twice; once with natural lighting, the second with artificial lighting; using the three point lighting system.