Go ahead, ask your Physics teacher about light---but don't say I didn't warn you!
There's a reason you'll find, like, a million lighting tutorials on the web: Light shapes a scene, and our emotional response to it. Learn to control the Force, young Jedi, and you will -----OH WAIT, sorry, wrong tutorial! Learn to control lighting in your projects, and master how your audience perceives and responds to your work!!!
LIGHTING, PART 1
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LIGHTING, PART 2: All the Feels.
3-point lighting is like a recipe for pizza; once you figure out the basics, you can play around and tweak it to create some really amazing results! You want thin crust? Deep dish? Meat lovers? Pepperoni green chile? Veggie? White sauce? No sauce? (wow, this is making me hungry, I better stop...) Just like you can play with the ingredients and foundation in a pizza, you can play with light sources, placements and treatments to create an incredible variety of effects. We're going to look at how to play with lighting setups to convey emotions, and use Gels to affect the look/mood of a scene. You have 3 GRADED tutorials to complete, for a total of 10 points:
As soon as you're done, we'll go into the studio to try out some of these Gels and Mood Lighting Techniques!
- Get the Feels with a graded tutorial on Mood Lighting. Watch the video and answer questions HERE.
- Color me Happy! No, SAD! Learn about using colored gels HERE.
- Okay, so that last one was really quick. Correct different lighting colors (temperatures) HERE.
As soon as you're done, we'll go into the studio to try out some of these Gels and Mood Lighting Techniques!
Graded Lighting Assignment: 1,000,000 Points!!
Okay, not a million points. More like 16. Each setup is worth 4 points: 2 points for getting the lighting setup right, 1 for correct Focus, 1 for correct Exposure & White Balance. You can earn a bonus point for creativity and good composition. You can also lose points for safety issues, or if you don't participate fully and rotate responsibilities (Camera, Lighting Setup, Electric, Modeling).
Your team will work together to set up and record the following Lighting scenarios. ROTATE JOBS so that NO ONE is stuck doing just 1 job, or getting cut out of the action entirely. I will check to ensure everyone has equal responsibilities. Record to the SD Card and submit by the end of class.
- "Horror/Mystery" Scene: Dramatic, sometimes a single light source; breaks the “eye-level” plane. Lights set below or above subject. Lots of deep, deep ‘gotcha’ shadows. Can use a cucaloris or prop to shape light.
- Comedy: Flat, even lighting; characters often brightest object in the frame. (Typical 3-point Lighting Setup)
- Fantasy: Colored light; doesn’t follow the rules of reality. (Use 1 or more colored gels)
- Drama: Soft, diffused "romantic" light that flatters the subject; lots of cameo and shaped lighting; use of "hair" light (backlight) is evident. Background is a bit darker.