Introduction
In yesterday's workshop, we were given a day to learn and experience what types of lighting there are so we can use it for our films. Here we covered a variety of types of lighting such as high and low key lighting, chiaroscuro, tones of lighting etc.
We also covered the 3 ways to light up a scene: key, backlight and fill lighting. Fergus (our support technician) introduced us on how to position these 3 sets of lighting by mainly focusing on positioning the lights at 45 degree angles based around the camera.
Task
For our afternoon task, we were assigned to find a known example of a piece of film noir (chiaroscuro based lighting) from a piece of film, or a general example which you can find over the internet. Below shows an image of the image my group chose (Ren, Lex and I) which we found after googling 'film noir':
Below is our attempt to create this image. At first I thought it would be quite easy to interpret this image, however it was proving difficult to create the juxtaposition between light and dark, as well as gaining the crisp of the image.
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| Chosen image for our task. |
It took a variety of attempts to make the image more crisp and the shadow darker. This is evident in the two images - the second image consisted of only using one light (key light) instead of using a fill and key light for the first image. We also positioned the light at a completely different angle which proved to be more successful than the first image.
Additionally, my group and I also wanted to create a horror image by going from darkness to a face appearing in light - basically the generic horror face. Below shows a video of the face appearing into the light from darkness (this was just a bit of fun and experimenting!)
Overall, I found this lighting course very helpful as I wasn't really sure on how to position lighting for a shot, as well as not having much experience or knowledge with lighting in general.
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