Lighting Exercise (Includes video)

Lighting

Lighting in movies is used a lot of times, but first you have to know all the key lighting used in films, which include: 

• Key Lighting; is the brightest and most influential.

• Back Lighting; helps counteract the effect of the key light or creates an outline or silhouette.

• Filler Lighting; helps to soften the harsh   shadows that the use of key and back lights create.

• Under Lighting; is when the main source comes from below the subject. Used in thrillers and horrors, also in my opinion creates more suspense.

• Top Lighting; is when the main source of lighting comes from above - high lighting the features - used to create a glamorous look.

• Back Lighting; is when the source is behind the subject. If no other lighting is used silhouettes are created.

• Low key lighting; is created by using only the key and back lights. This will produce a sharp contrast of light and dark areas on the screen as very deep, distinct shadows are formed. Also known as Chiaroscuro (from the italian for kight - chiaro and dark - oscuro)

• High key lighting; more filler lights are used. Lighting appears realistic.

Our Lighting Exercise

 We used key lighting and you can see how bright it is because half of his face is all bright while hte other is dark but he also is still visible.

The back light creates a outline round him you can see the light reflect on his back.

 The filler light you can see it covers all his face and makes it really bright and his face isn't that visible.

The under lighting is used here and you can see in the background the massive shadow of her also her mouth isn't visible because of the under lighting and mostly you can see only her hair making a effect that she doesn't have a mouth.

The top lighting is used here to make the person look more glamorous.

In this bit we used the key light and back light which creates distinctive shadows and produces sharp contrasts of light and dark on the screen.

The high key lighting used here creates a affect that the person here has no face at all because the light nearly covers up the whole face and his face not clear at all, also loads of fillers are used to make the light appear realistic.

That was our lighting Exercise.