Lighting Exercise Evaluation.

Lighting Exercise Evaluation.

In this sound exercise, we used different lighting techniques to show what each shot can do to a scene in a movie. Diferrent shots can make different effects for the viewer. 

Key lighting.

Key lighting is lighting that comes from one side, for example in the video where only half the face has light on it, this effect is used a lot in photograpahy to show mystery. Key lighting is used to show predominantly dark tones and shadow but where the light is there are usually expresed colours or if no colours it is in black and white. 

Back lighting.

Back lighting is when you illuminate the person or subject from behind. This causes the edges of whatever is being lighten up from behind to glow, while all the other areas remain dark. This lightiung is usually made by a 4 point lighting setup, this set up is usally behind the subject or directily behind it so that the best effect is made. This would be effective in a horror movie when the director does not want the villian to be shown as of yet so this lighting would be best to use as it looks very mysterious aswell.

Filler light 3 point lighting.

This lighting is mostly used in television, stage, film or photographic lighting. A fill light may be used to reduce contrast of a scene and attempt to eradicate parts of the scene where there are shadows. A common lighting set up is made up of three lights around the object or person you want to do this scene with, 2 of the lights are at the front, one is called key light and the other is called fill light, the light at the back is called back light, the image below is a typical three-point lighting.

Under lighting.

Under lighting is a very effective way of using light to create a sense of fear in a scene. This lighting technique is mostly used in classic horror movies and sometimes seen in modern horros, but not as much as it used to be used. This lighting is made when the object or person has a light below themselves. This can be simply made even at home with just a torch on under your face and the same effect is made.

Top lighting.

Top lighting is mostly used in modeling photography where the persons face is shined on by the light to take away any inperfections they may have, for example wrinkles. This happens because the light goes into the skin and makes it look very smooth and round so that the person looks their best taking a photo. An example of this is below.

Low key lighting.

Low key lighting uses only one key light, optionally controlled with a fill light of a simple reflector. You can chose where you want to make shadows on the object when doing a low key lighting shot, you can make certain shadows depending on where you place the light. Low key lighting only uses one light source usually. Below is an example of low key lighting.

High key lighting.

High key lighting is a style of lighting for film, television or photography that ains to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scene. In the 1950s and 1960s, high key lighting was achieved through multipul light sources lighting up one scene. The Advantage of high key lighting is that it doesn't require adjustment for each scene whiche allows the production of a scene or multipul scenes to happen in hours instead of days.