Lighting Workshop

Last Friday we had a Lighting workshop with Matt. In that workshop we went over the different types of lights and lighting methods that we could use when filming our music videos. Matt showed us several different lights either for background lighting or coloured neon tube lights which we could use to set a tone for our music video.

Types of Lights:

• The first type of light that we were shown was a sort of flood light which we had used to light up the subject that we were testing the lights on. 
  
  
• This light is mainly used for having spotlights on the whole band or artist and grabs the attention of whoever is watching the music video. 
  
  
• The light can be used in different ways such as putting it on the side of the subject to have shadows on one side of their face and the other with light contrasting against it.
  
  
• Another technique that we had used with these lights was Backlighting where we only shone the back of the subject to give a bright highlight around the edge of the model this can make the subject ominous/mysterious.
  
  
• The last method we were shown was bouncing the light off surfaces to make the light appear somewhat softer when shining on the subject instead of the harsher light when shone directly at the model.
  
  

• Another type of light that we used was a Photon Beard Highlight This was a much bigger and broader light compared to the others that we were shown.
  
  
• This is just a big fluorescent white light Which is usually rigged on platforms above where a performance is happening or to give lighting on top of the subject your filming.
  
  
• There are not many other diverse uses for this type of light other than giving a bright spotlight.