*clapping to the beat*
Kat and Dušan!
Here they go again
my, my
You just can't look away!
Filmmakers welcome to another week's video
So as you can see Kat and me now have a theme song
which is in no way inspired by
a song by one of the best
and brightest
music bands in music history
so talking about the BRIGHTEST band in music history
Kat and me are going to talk to you today about
Lighting!
So when making a film you have to take into consideration
that lighting is one of the most important aspects
of making a film beautiful
The most common technique with lighting
that's used is three point lighting
obviously that's not the case in every single scenario
or every single film
but it's a good place to start at
You don't have to have too many lights or expensive lights
but if you can try and get a 300 or 650 light
and just try and make a scene look beautiful
from different points
Yeah and like Dušan said it's no the case for every film
but it's definitely a good place to start
to make your film look more cinematic
so the three points would be your key light
which is the main point of lighting for your scene
your fill light, which fills in any shadows that you get
and the back light which will help your actors stand out from the background
and make it look more three dimensional
As Kat said if that's the style of film you're going for
that's great, because as we know there's many
many different genres of film and you have to decide
if it's a comedy, a horror or an art film
and you actually want to experiment with lights
then great do that!
Yeah and as you said different styles create different moods
and different atmospheres
so have a read of your script and try to visual how lighting would work
to get the mood across for you
A good director of photographer would advice you
that if you're shooting outside or even inside
and want the light to come in naturally
it's better to shoot on a cloudy day
rather than on a sunny day because the weather is more constant
Yeah and a great trick that I learned this weekend
we were shooting our film inside
and we wanted to create our own lighting atmosphere
that was going to be constant throughout the day
and before I knew it there was foil on the windows
if you just get some water and stick on aluminium foil
it blocks out all of the light that is coming in
so we had a great atmosphere all day
even though the neighbours may have wondered why
Another point we have to cover when talking about lighting
is that it's very important to handle lights with care
So if you're shooting in a room make sure
your first assistant director checks all the power sockets
that there's enough electricity to hold all of your lights
and if you're shooting outside make sure you have a power generator
because a lot of things can go wrong
and you might not be able to finish your film
We've had a couple of erm, I wouldn't say complaints
but like a couple of, er, comments
that our lighting is sometimes not on point
in our videos and that's
what usually happens when Harvey's not here to
do it, so, this time Harvey was here to do it
and it looks AMAZING
So our book of the WEEEEEEK
is Visual Storytelling by Morgan Sandler
How to speak to your audience without saying a word.
not one word
I did a review of this book and it's on our blog
and it's a great book to tell you, not just about lighting,
but also cinematography so framing, different camera lenses,
and this book isn't actually out until September so this is a sneak preview
but definitely worth a read once it comes out
Sure, absolutely!
So we hope that this little video reminds you
of some of the important things you should think about
when you're making your film
and when you're handling lighting
and if you want to hear anymore about lighting
you can have a read of our article
and we've also got a class coming up
called Basic Cinematography
one of the popular ones
so check out the website for that
Do it! Do it now!
Check it out, it's really helpful
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Remember to use gloves
and wait for them to calm -
Hmmm calm down?
GUYS calm down
Jesus these two
CHEsus
