Intro to Lightingfor film and video

The Goals of Lighting-Control the mood of your video

-Direct the eye of the viewer where you want it to go

-Emphasize and de-emphasize elements within the frame

-Add texture and color

-Make people look beautiful, ugly, sinister, or angelic

-Get a decent exposure!

The 5 Attributes of Light

1) Hard or Soft

2) Intensity

3) Direction

4) Color

5) Beam pattern

1) Hard or Soft (or in between)A small light source that creates a direct beam is

hard light and produces distinct shadows, A large light source scatters light around and is soft filling in some of those shadows.

Hard Light

SOFT LIGHT

2) Intensity (the amount of light)Intensity can be changed by using more or less powerful lights, by moving lights closer or farther from your subject,or by cutting the light with a neutral density filter.

3) Direction (in relation to the lens/subject axis)How can we alter light direction?-Rotating the light around the camera/subject axis-Raising or lowering the light-Bouncing the light the light off some sort of reflectorhttp://lowel.com/edu/components_interview.html

4) Color (of light emitted)

Color can be caused by the light’s Color Temperature or by placing Gels on the light.Alter the color of the light to:-match color temperatures of different sources-make a more interesting composition-mimic other light sources (i.e. blue light for night)

5) Beam pttern

Gobo is the term for something (anything) that goes

between the light and the subject and modifies the light.

Snoots are tubes that are used to aim lights. Snoots restrict all the light except for that in the exact direction the flash or strobe is pointed. The more constricted the tube, the smaller the resulting light. The longer the tube or snoot, the more defined the shape of the light.

Barn doors are hinged flaps that you position on the sides of the light to control the spread of the light. They can be adjusted to control how the light spreads out.

Grids go in front of the light and control the spread of the light in much the same way as a snoot. The size of the grid is responsible for the spread of the light — the smaller the holes in the grid, the tighter the light.

Our Lights

Kit #1- Arri 3-Point Fresnel Kit (150w, 300w, 650w)

Kit #2- Lowel Omni, Lowel Omni, Lowel Tota

Kit #3- Lowel Rifa 44, Lowel Tota, 200w Pepper Fresnel

Kit #4- Arri 650w, Arri 650w, Lowel Tota

Lowel Caselite

On Camera LED

Rifa 44

Rifa 66

Chimera with light pattern kit

Examples3 point light:

http://www.lowel.com/edu/components_interview.html

Light Postion 360:

http://www.lowel.com/edu/foundations_of_lighting.html

Soft Light vs hard

http://www.lowel.com/edu/foundations_softlight.html

Low Key Lighting

Darker lighting, possibly one light source, lots of contrast, moody

http://youtu.be/rDK9MDklzFo?t=1

Bibliography-http://www.lowel.com/edu-http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/shaping-light-with-photographic-tools.html-http://brandonflint.com/blog/?p=1320