Lighting Practical

The original setting

Lighting Practical

 As we are filming a lot on location for our piece, I thought it would be a good idea to see what kind of lighting would be a good idea to use to create the mood we wanted for our piece.

I used the indoor cage with my rabbit and guinea pig in it as the subjects as they were a stationary object in a place where the light is easy to manipulate.

All the lights on

To start with, I took a photo of them with no lights on in the room and the light coming in from the room next door to see what effect this had.  It light up the room fairly well however there were some shadows which perhaps we wouldn't want in our piece.

One curtain closed and no lights

The second photo I took was when I turned on all the lights in the room.  Due to the lights being blue LED lights, they gave the room and the photo a blue-ish tint but it light up the room really well with no unnecessary shadows.  This would be useful for us to know because if we film on a day which is darker outside, we then have a good idea of what the shot could look like if we put the lights on.

Both curtains closed and lights off

The third shot i did was with the lights off in the room again and with one of the curtains closed to see how badly the loss of lighting from half of the screen would affect the photo.  As shown to the right, the photo wasn't that badly effected as the subject was still fully lit and there wasn't any shadows in the shot that would affect it.

The last shot I took was with both the curtains closed but with the lights still on in the other room.  This meant that some light could still get through but it didn't illuminate the subject of the photo particularly well. Therefore I recommend that this set up is only used if there is an effective and bright enough light source behind the curtains.  However, this lighting could be used in the scene where the protagonist is having a sleepover with her friends but is shown to be alienating and distancing herself from them.