LIGHTING SET UP EXPERIMENTATION

As we had decided that we wanted a performance and narrative based music video we thought that it would be a good idea to experiment with different lighting to see what kind of effects we could achieve. For this experiment we only had two studio lights to work with. However, we were able to look at lighting direction and positioning as well as looking at what effect the lighting would give in one of our chosen locations.

 

Here, we really liked how the lighting cast two shadows behind the subject as we thought that it added more detail and depth to the shot which makes it more interesting.

 

In this shot the subject and location appear over-exposed and so we soon realised that we didn't need all of the three point lighting and also the room lighting to be all on to achieve a ‘natural’ room setting.

 

 

We also experiment with the height of the lighting to see if it affected the way the room and subject was lit. We found that it altered the directions of the shadows and this shot appears quite similar in the respect of lighting as some of the other shots.

 

 

We also wanted to experiment with backlighting to see if we could achieve the right effect using a lens flare. In some of the shots we found that there was a slight silhouetted effect as some of the facial detail was lost due to the contrast through the backlighting. By using the barn doors we directed the light and so we could control the direction of the lens flares as well as moving the camera to different angles. This meant that we were finally able to achieve that included backlighting that gave a lens flare as well as a halo effect while not losing the detail in the subject’s face.

We found this to be beneficial as we were able to test various lighting arrangements and techniques that we considered using within our music video. It also meant that we could see what the lighting on a subject could look like at different distances away and if the facial details were lost in the movement of the camera.