Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fill Light, Cross Burning, Low Key
17 Apr 2016
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Lumior brother gave first presentation of commercial. Melies: person to transform objects, create optical illusions. No dynamic movement, characters left to right, camera does not move. Setting: three options, location, studio, miniatures/models: is the setting non descript, threatening, cluttered/spared. Lighting: consists of highlights and shadows, both are necessary to bring out texture and volumes, two type of shadows. Attached shadows: attached to or apart of a person/object. From light falling onto the body making a shadow on a different part of the same body. Create land somewhere else: four aspects of lighting. Light direction: where is the light coming from. Frontal lighting: directed into the scene from a position near the camera. Side lighting (cross lighting): comes inform the sides of the set, 3 dimensional. Top lighting: contours the face, coming from the top of the set. Creates an edge of light on the forehead. Backlighting: creates low key illumination, what"s in front will be in shadow.
