Course Module - BAFI101 Practical Screen-craft Lecture - Stu Bailey
Practising Lighting
Towards the start of the lesson, Stu took us through the colour circle which was quite confusing and seemed complex at first glance, I have always learnt from a hands on experience, actually testing the camera and replicating shots from existing films by putting the techniques that we were being taught into practice i.e. using different colours, ISO, shutter speeds, f-stops and of course the types of lighting such as daylight, tungsten which can create either a high or low key effect for our image.
Anything outside of the circle is called the Hue - Saturates from the middle out.
When looking at white balances and colours, Tungsten and Daylight are the two most common, they both portray a different cast and look.
The best thing that Stu said we could do would be to take a picture, look at the image, get the correct framed shot that we want and then from there we can go to Custom White balance and from there in the menus we can change the colours of the image, increasing and decreasing certain shades within the image, fade out or add noise etc.
For our first task, we were asked to take a variety of stills and play around with lighting, using a reflector, has a black, white, gold and silver texture to it, depending on the effect you want, you can really bounce the light or reflect the light to give the image mood or in this case add light onto the actors face. Below are shots that were taken using different sides of the reflector from different locations.
All images are taken from PCA students Luke Curno, Dann Hobbs and Danielle Young - November 2015 - Using a Cannon camera in college.
The second task involved us as a group heading up into the studio/green-screen room, we were asked to create high and low key lighting. To start off, each group was allocated an object to work with, my group used an old film camera, looked rusty and I thought that we could get some brilliant lighting and shadows for the rust around the base of the reel. Each group was then given a set of lights inc. one LED panel and a dedo light, I really enjoyed this task as I was able to experiment with shadows, high and low key lighting and just test out everything, using different angles, heights, colours etc. Below are a few examples which I thought looked amazing using the high and low key techniques on our allocated objects.
All images are taken from PCA students Luke Curno, Dann Hobbs and Danielle Young - November 2015 - Using a Cannon camera in college.
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