Lighting Exercise

1.)
A -

We did this by placing both lights either side of our actor and making the one on the right-hand side dimmer than the one on the left-hand side. This therefore illuminated each side of the face while creating a shadow in the middle of the face. 

We replicated picture B - 

We did this by placing one of our lights on the left-hand side and only dimming the light a slight bit which gave off quite a strong light, and therefore creating shadows. However, it was not bright enough to light the rest of the room, which is what he wanted as we had to keep one side of the face almost pitch black.

2.) 

We were not able to do the silhouette shot as we tried it out with the lighting we had and we could not gain enough light for a silhouette. We will therefore rent out the stronger LED lights and we will successfully create this shot. 

3.)

Unfortunately we accidentally deleted our frontal key light shot, therefore this will also be re-done.

Key light and fill - we did this by using placing both of our lights either side of the actor. We made the one on the right-hand side brighter than the one on the left-hand side. We made one of the lights dimmer by tightening the umbrella with an elastic band, therefore giving off less light. 

Bottom up light only - we did this by placing the light underneath the actor and pointing the umbrella in an upwards direction which meant that the light was reflected onto the bottom of the actors face. 

Side light only - we did this by only using one of our lights and we held down the umbrella with an elastic band which made the light less bright. If we did not do this, the light was too bright and illuminated the whole room instead of just one side of the actor. 

Top light only - We achieved this effect by holding the light above the head and tilting the attached umbrella down so the light reflected directly down onto his head

 - this was hard to achieve has the cables  attached to the lighting were not long enough to reach to the top of his head. 

Back light only - We did this by placing just one light behind the actor, and placing him in front of the light, so it was blocked from shining at the camera. We only used one light as if we used two there would have been light shining at the camera and therefore you would not be able to see anything but light.


We may co-operate some of these lighting techniques in our film, however most of them will not be very relevent to our scene, as most of the interior of our scene will be naturally lit anyway. Although we could possibly use low key lighting in the hospital scene to add to the feeling of suspense and misery.