lighting

Lighting

lighting is very important for the production in a film, as different lighting effects can help create a different atmosphere. There are three main lights, and they are fill light, key light and back light and they all have different affects.

The Key LightThe key light is the main and strongest light out of all three, as this faces towards the character at a slight angle. This will also ohighlight the background scene, and will cast off a bit of a shadow from the character. This could be used to emphasise the main character, and his importance.

The Fill Light

This is the secondary light and is placed on the opposite side of the key light. This is used to take away the shadows that are created bt the key light. Also, this light would be softer and less brighter than the Key light. this also creates a softer affect on the face of the character.

The Back Light

The Back light's primary use is to light up the behind the character. This creates a three dimentional look on the character or subject, aand creates subtle highlights arouond the character's outline. This also helps separates the background from the character. This could be used to hide the character's face, if no other light would be used, and this would help create a thrilling, and mysterious scene.

You can also have another light to light up the background. This can be used to make the background more visable, if it is important.

This was our attempt to recreate this 1980's image. I think that we got it quite similar, minus the fact that it was not in a dark room, so there is far more light that the origional image. We captured the shadows under the eyes, cheekbones, nose, lip and chin well and these was done by using a key light.

This too was another image that we copied. I think we again got this quite well, as we have the same highlight on the cheeks, lip, nose and forehead. The positioning too is quite similar. In the origional image, there was a back light and a key light.

Out of all the images we managed to copy, I think this one went the best, as we have the same defined shadows, and positions as the origional. Also, the shadows are in the right places; one side of the nose, one side of the hand, cheekbones and neck. We used a fill light that was close up to the model, and a back light to highlight the hair and ear, although you can not see this.


This task was more complicated than we had initially expected, as it was hard to get the right positioning of the model, as well as the lighting. we also spent some time working out what lights were used in the image.