Sunday, 22 February 2015

Lighting & Colour Research

To measure the light source's ability to show object colours "realistically" or "naturally" compared to a familiar reference source, either incandescent light or daylight.
In many TV programmers, movies use natural daylight if shooting in the morning as it has a big influence on the look and mood that is created. Natural light can vary from bright, clear and sunny and they use special. Also they use studio lights if shooting outside after sun sets to make it brighter and clearer to see for actors and audience.

studio light      Daylight                         incandescent light 

What is the purpose Lighting & Colour Research?

  • Lighting is responsible for significant effects in each scene. As light can draw attention to specific areas of interest, and create wonderful effects by its interplay with dark areas.
  • Lighting can give depth to a scene, while also bringing out texture and detail in setting, décor, and clothing.
  • Light can be either hard or soft light. soft light covers a wider area with a more diffuse light, diminishes outline and clarity of characters, minimizes shadow, and reduces modelling of detail and texture. Hard light clearly illuminates areas, sharply outlines and illuminates characters, brings out detail and texture, and markedly separates light and shadows.

Main Task

From the book 'Running On The Cracks' their is no details of lighting effects, which what filming industry face when filming, by using the access lights in the surrounding, and the studio lights. This part of the process is very simple, however lighting effects tend to change (e.g if shooting in a daylight, the weather could change in time/ when re-shooting a particular scene the lighting effect would be different), meaning when filming it is important to consider lighting and colour effects every time.

When we were shooting the opening scene it was in winter, which suits the genre 'thriller' as it is gloomy dull lighting effect. When shooting the flash back we used the incandescent light, to light the inside of the house as how it would be lighten up in the evening.

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