Lighting Lab

Objective

Become more familiar with how to manipulate light to create visually pleasing and professional looking shots. (Roll tape on all of these setups so you can edit it later into a useful learning tool)

1. 3-point lighting

• Set up a studio light setting for a news report (Single reporter sitting at a table). Use the article provided by your teacher for technical assistance.


• Perform a white balance with the florescent lights on in the room only.


• Set the “Key” light first. View the lighting characteristics in the monitor.


• Set the “Rim” or “Back” light second and view the new characteristics in the monitor. Turn off the Key light to make sure it is positioned well.


• Add and position the “fill” light.


• Turn off each light in turn to consider the different effects that each light gives.


• When your light is finally set, perform a white balance with florescent lights off and look at the monitor.

2. Diffusion

• Go outside the school and set up a shot in the direct sun.


• White balance the camera and shoot some footage


• Use a large silk diffuser to modify the light and re-shoot the scene


• Capture and preview the footage on your computer

3. Chromakey or compositing lighting (green screen)

• Shoot your subject in front of a green screen with no lighting except the overhead florecent lights


• Set up a strong back light or rim light
behind your subject

• Set the key light
in front of your subject

• Light the background with the soft box or “rifa”


• Shoot the subject again in front of the green screen.


• Edit the subject footage in Premiere to be in the desert (Use the desert image out of the Photoshop samples on your computer’s hard drive)