Lighting Homework Task

	How we managed to pull off this photo, was by having the key light only to Robert's left, as seen in my diagram.
	This photo is an example of key light only for image C on the task sheet, just by having light on one side of the face creates the effect of evil and creates tension.
	The silhouette effect here was created by having the two lights behind Robert, which therefore creates the silhouette effect. .
	key light only - Megan Using only the key light illuminates the whole of the subject, though has slightly more light on the left hand side in this case as the key light is placed to the left hand side.
	key light and fill - Megan The combination of the key light and the fill light illuminates both sides of the face, creating quite natural-looking lighting.
	lighting from below - Megan Lighting a subject from below can create a quiet eerie mood. It appears to highlight one side of a character's face while leaving the other one in complete shadow.
	Top lighting only(Chris). In some ways, this type of lighting imitates mid-day natural light.  A lot of the subject is comfortably  lit whist small shadows remain in certain areas.
	Side light only(Chris). This lighting setup causes only half the subject to be lit whilst  the rest mainly remains in shadow. This effect can suggest control issues on the subject in some cases as well be useful in other situations.
	Backlight only(Chris). This creates almost a silhouette effect onto the subject, making it difficult to see all features of the subject.

Mark:

What difficulties have I experienced?
An experience we had that was difficult was knowing how bright the light was and what way to position the light, at some points the background had light when it wasn't intended. Also the camera we had was enhancing the amount of light compared to real life so that was an issue but think we got around it as the photos above are at a high quality.

What have I learnt from this task?
In this task I have learnt how the lights can manipulate the mood of the character and create tension just from the way the lights are on the character, also I have added to my vocabulary the lighting terms that I will be needing for the exam and also for the Thriller opening sequence.

Megan:

What difficulties have I experienced?
This task was difficult as it was sometimes difficult to manipulate the light to get it to do what you wanted it to do in terms of how much of the face was lit compared with the background. We found that the surroundings were often lit a lot more than we intended them to be, but got around this issue somewhat by taking more time to precisely set up the lighting.

What have I learnt from this task?

I have learnt that lighting not only plays a huge part in the way a scene can look and the effect that can be achieved, but also can be incredibly difficult to get right. Because of this, I think we are going to need to think very carefully about the lighting that we decide to use for the thriller opening, and possibly plan more for it than we would have done without this task.

Chris:

What difficulties have I experienced?
The main difficulty I discovered was during the set up period for each of the shots. In most cases,  it took a while to understand how to set up the lights in order to achieve the desired shot.  Due to the  lighting behaving differently than expected, and the surrounding area being largely white, the light was being reflected around a lot causing the shots to look differently than expected. We got around this by altering the light setup various times as well as standing in the way of the light to block it.

What have I learnt from this task?
From this task, I have learnt how difficult it can be to achieve precise lighting setups without bouncing light damaging the result. I now take more account of  the lighting used and how the lighting setup has been achieved. It has also given me experience on the various types of lighting setups available for use during my thriller and ideas on what they can convey to the audience.

Robert:

What difficulties have I experienced?

The problems that I found most impacting upon our work out was that it took a bit of time to get the equipment ready and co-operation was slightly bad (my fault). The others did a great job in setting up the equipment but like I said it took a long time. We had issues with backlight coming from the corridor so we kindly asked Megan to put a harry potter statue and stand behind it! what an idea! We also kindly asked a student who was working in the room if it was ok to pull the blinds down, he had no objections. All in all this exercise gives a good practice for the setting up of the thriller. We followed the instructions and finally it was done.

What have I learnt from this task?

The main thing i learnt is that lighting is just so important in a indoor setting. It is so hard to recreate natural light and it, too is hard to get the right balance so it does not look "too artifical". The excercise also gave a good lesson on the set up of the equipment and the differences between the reflector umbrellas,. Something that I have never known about before but only seen! It just goes to show how much time is put in if it takes a good 30mins to set up for a few shots. Like i said the lack of my co-operation slowed the whole process down but the others worked well. Peace!