Lighting Workshop

Today we had a workshop with one of our teachers and we were taught on how to properly do lighting for our music videos. He started by telling us what type of light we normally use for the music videos and it was called a redhead light ad it is the most common light that gets used when making a music video and later he also mentioned flurries which are basically long tubes of fluorescent LEDs and these lights can be used in a shot to try and create an atmosphere because they are aesthetically pleasing to look at. 

Then he went on to talk about different ways we could use light to make a shot look beautiful and nice for the audience. He started by talking about one point lighting where it is best for the light to be placed around the camera but it wasn't very good because it created quite a sharp shadow on half of the persons face but this can be fixed by using a three point lighting method where there is a focus light (which is the one that was used in the one point lighting), a filler light that gets rid of the shadow on the side of the persons face and is normally further away from the object to still create a 'shadow' on the person's face and then there is also a back light to out line the person because without the back light the person starts to blend into the background and all the back light does is give the person an outline to make them appear separate to the background. 

Our teacher then showed us a few other ways to light our shot. One of them being a three point shot but instead of using a redhead light for the backlight and instead use a blonde light which is a much more powerful version of the redhead light. Then there is a method that another one of our teachers made when they were working on a different project he had a massive flat from the theatre department and some wax paper to disperse the light across the room and create a nice warm glow to the shot and it is a good light to use if there are a lot of props around the set and you don't want any shadows to appear on the main object of the shot.