- The only difference
between this shot right here
and this shot is the lighting.
So today, I'm going to show you
how to set up your key light,
your fill light and your back light
to get amazing video quality.
We're going to be using
a simple low budget
three point lighting kit,
so let's get into it.
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Lighting is the most
important aspect of getting
really good video quality and they use
three point lighting in
movies, TV shows, music videos.
So today I'm going to show
you how to set up each light
and what it does.
So let's go ahead and
start with the key light.
So this is the key light and the key light
really is the main light
source and so if you were
to use one light, you
would use a key light.
And so we're the Neewer and
L6 660 and all this gear
is going to be linked down
below in the description.
So the key light is on the
right side of Heather's face
and this is the main light.
And really it doesn't matter
if it's on the left side
or the right side, the
fill side is going to be
on the opposite side of the key light.
Now I'm going to show you
with just the key light on
so the backlight and
the fill light are off
and this is just the key
light lighting Heather's
right side of her face.
So this is our fill light
and we're using another Neewer light
and if I turn this off you
can see that the shadows
are pretty dark on Heather's face.
And so when I turn this light back on,
it adds a nice fill to her left side.
And this just makes the
shadows not as dark.
And I also wanted to share
with you that it's okay
to have shadows on your subject.
A lot of people think for
YouTube videos or interviews,
they just want to flood
as much light as they can
but shadows are actually great because
that's what shapes your subject.
A little power tip about your fill light
is that it needs to obviously
be not as bright as your key.
And so if you have a
light that doesn't dim,
maybe it is a soft box with bulb.
What you an do is just take your light
and move it back and so
that's going to dim your light
if you can move your
light source farther away
from the subject.
So we've covered the key
light and we just covered
the fill light.
And this is the back light.
It's the third light in this setup.
So the main purpose of this back light
is to create separation
between the subject
and the background.
So a lot of YouTubers or
people who are getting
into video, they don't
think to add this light
and what happens is the subject can often
just fall and fix into the background
and this helps really add
a pop to your subject.
So if we turn this light
on and off you can see
it really adds a lot to the shot.
It makes her pop and it makes her standout
from the background which
is exactly what this light
is used for.
So I'm going to share a
secret lighting technique
that they use on movies and TV shows
and this is gonna make
you standout on YouTube.
But before I get into that,
let me know in the comments below,
what light do you use?
And if you're getting value
make sure you leave a like
on this video.
So the secret hack that they use in movies
is actually called motivated lighting.
So you can see in the
background we have a lamp,
and if we were to just turn that off
this light looks really
unnatural because we don't
really know where this
light source is coming from.
But we purposely put that
lamp in the background
to motivate this back light
so it looks like this light
is going onto Heater because of the lamp.
And this light is really
cool because it's bi-color
so we can change the
color temperature to match
that lamp and the cool
thing about this light
is it's right around $30
and so Sean did a really
cool review if you click
the card right here
to check that out, I think you guys
are going to love this light.
And remember that motivated
lighting could be the thing
that takes you to the
next level in your videos.
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