Colour & Lighting

In todays & yesterdays seminar we learnt about colour and light. Yesterday we watched a 90 min video on it & today we had a powerpoint about it and then went on to film in the studio with lights to make it look like daylight.

There are 3 different lights which include:
- key light (hard)
- back light (hard)
- fill light (soft)

Three main properties of light:
- coherence (quality)
- colour temperature (colour)
- intensity (strength)

We found the task to make the studio with daylight difficult at first as it seemed dark in the background with shadows but the characters face was really bright & yellow. Here is one of our first example:



Deb then helped us and said  it would help to change the setting of the iris on the camera and move the lights closer to the character. We set the iris to 0db meaning the quality was alot better than what we had previously filmed in. We lowed the lights towards the character which also got rid of the shadows. obvious shadows.

Here is our final result using light & filters: