Lighting Decisions - Natalie Sergeant

Indoor Lighting

     

For the indoor lighting we will be sticking with the Three Point Lighting System. This is where tree lights are set around the actor in a triangular setting. These three lights are the key, fill an back lights, from them being in this position will allow for the actor to be fully visible on camera. As we will be filming the indoor space twice but want to have the affect of slightly different times, we will use gel filters that will cause the timing to look earlier in the day or later. For the earlier shots we will use a brighter fill light so to create a happy mood as no critical events have accrued yet. Then in the shot to represent later use harsher lighting such as using a brighter key light and dimmer fill light to create a shadow on actor to create a emotional mood as this is the feelings of the character.


As seen in our lighting experiment after trying many different combinations we looked through our results and felt that having the three point lighting system worked best with what we wanted to achieve of having a indoor feel but keeping the character clean to the audience. As seen in the image next by using the three point lighting system highlights the actors full face.

 

Outdoor Lighting

                                          

For most of our shots will be using long shots so will strongly depend of natural lighting. Thought we will be using reflector so as to reflect lighting to our actor on closer shots so as to keep them hidden and keep a more natural lighting effect. We can use the reflector to reflect light from the sun.

 

For our more close up shots where our actor finds the object we will use Key light. This will illuminate the actor and create a harsh shadow to show the fear in the character's face but to create a shadow over there back to give a tense feeling of not knowing if something could be behind her.