Lighting Practice

 In order to create the perfect theme and tension for our thriller we decided to do some practicing with lighting and discover how it can change moods/scenes instantaneously. We borrowed a small LED camera light from the media department to take our shots. We decided to take our photos in the English store room as it was the darkest place we could find that would allow us to manipulate the light. 

 

 

 

 

 

Firstly, we held the camera at a high angle to create a rather angelic/ protagonist feel to the photo. This allowed us to experiment with how we could enhance a characters persona just by changing the lighting of a shot.

 

 

Then we tried to create a softer look, by moving the light above and behind the persons head to eradicate any harsh shadows that would make the person look menacing or fierce.

We then decided to experiment with reflecting the light off of different surfaces. We found a series of different coloured folders and decided to bounce the light off of these in order to create a coloured light.  

We held the light at different distances from the folder to create more intense and more relaxed colourings in the light. Below are the photos we took using the folders...

 

We also experimented with video and how lighting could move over a person. We decided to post the footage on our blogs.