Production Practice

In today we had a lighting workshop, our tutor in this session explained how we have to set up lighting when filming. He demonstrated and also drew a diagram how to set up the lights. The key light should be placed behind the camera to the right and the fill light should be to the right of the subject being filmed. The key light doesn’t have a fader, but the fill light has, this is were you can change the lighting on the subject. He also explained that we may need to edit the camera set ups, he also explained the do’s and don’ts with lighting; don’t have the lighting to close to the subject as the camera reacts to lights, lights should be place further away from the subject. When setting up the equipment up we should use gaffer tape to keep the equipment in place, also we should not crowd the subject with a lot of equipment. Another pointer our tutor gave us was that if we wanted to get rid of shadows we can move the lights, camera and also zoom the camera in and out until we think the set up is perfect. All lights should be set to flood light. Also in the workshop our tutor named a book to look at by Harris Watts called on camera. 

After our lighting workshop we then moved onto explaining the treatments that each group had for their short factual film. As I forgot to bring mine, we only had a couple to read, our tutor looked our the treatments our group had, and gave feedback explain which one he thinks we should use for our film. He thought phoebe’s treatment had be expanded enough that we could start to build on, we have until next week to decided if we are sticking to the idea. Also by next week we have to have some footage, script and production schedule, so that we are prepared to start filming. From todays session I have understood about how lighting can effect a scene or subject.