DIRECTIONS UNIT: Lighting Workshop 2

Following on from the lighting workshop the week before, we had another one but this time we were given a lot more freedom in terms of the effect we wanted to create. We were provided with more equipment to experiment with, such as reflectors and different coloured gels. 

The aim of this workshop was to experiment with the lights and see if we could replicate specific lighting techniques, either from an image we had found or from an idea we had for our own production. 

The first thing we decided to do was to see if we could still master the three point lighting technique. We set up the tungsten lights with a key light, a fill light and a back light. This was the look we achieved:

The light is a little too intense which creates a harsh shadow on Jason's face. We recognised this could be resolved by changing the distance of the lights from the subject and using scrim to dim the light,  however, we didn't want to spend too long replicating the three point lighting as we had many more exciting and different ideas we wanted to try with the lights. 

The next task we set ourselves was trying to create a silhouetted image. This was a lot harder than we anticipated. We could not control the lighting in the studio itself meaning that setting was quite bright itself. This therefore made it hard to control the lighting for the silhouette as the studio lighting interfered with our tungsten lighting. The studio is also a vast space meaning we had a large amount of space behind us, this again made it challenging to achieve the perfect silhouette. We still gave it a good go and managed to achieve some very stylised looks (which although weren't what we were aiming for, still looked pretty good.)