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Lighting for Video

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Lighting

As you have seen, lighting is crucial to the quality of your photograph and videos. It can make or break your film.

In this challenge, each of you will review a topic in lighting, pick out the key elements that are important to shooting digital film, and create a presentation for the class.

  1. Hard & Soft Light
  2. Color Temperature
  3. Light Intensity
  4. Lighting Instruments
  5. The Key Light
  6. Fill, Back, Background Lights
  7. Lighting Ratios
  8. Special Lighting Situations
  9. Altering Appearances with Light

Focus on key words & phrases as you use text and images in your presentation. There is a general rule for presentations that says:

"6 words per line, 6 lines per slide"

Anything more than that and you are reading verbatim from the screen.

You'll have 2 grades for this part:

  1. The information in your Presentation
  2. Your presentation to the class

Lighting Kit

After presentations, we'll set up the lighting kit and get practice filming some basic clips so that you can compare scenes with and without lighting and work on editing them in the next stage.

You will film in the following locations:

  • Outside
    Student walking down walkway, camera pans to follow them
  • Inside hallway
    Student walking towards camera (worms eye view)
  • Classroom
    Student interview (5 questions), Medium Shot, with microphone
  • Hallway with lighting kit
    Student interview (5 questions), Medium (full body) Shot, with microphone

Editing

Each of you will edit your clips using Premiere Pro. You'll be experimenting with your clips to get the best effects. The videos you'll watch below aren't using the same clips.

  1. Shadow/Highlight video
  2. Brightness/Contrast video - Choose Video Effects > Color Correction > Brightness/Contrast and use the rest of the methods from the video
  3. Color Correction video
  4. Try another method from the Video Effects Panel

Each clip will go on the timeline TWICE!

The first clip is the original, the second clip is the one you'll edit. This way we can compare them.

Use text to label each of the clips in the top left corner. Choose a font, size & color that is readable, but doesn't cover too much of the clip. Make each last 3 seconds.

  • Original
  • Shadow/Highlight
  • Brightness/Contrast
  • Color Correction
  • The effect you chose

Turning it in...

Each of you will upload your finished video to your YouTube Channel and embed it in your ePortfolio. Also, save your presentation as a PDF to link in your questions.

  1. Title of Challenge
  2. Then answer these questions:
    1. Explain the positioning of the 3 point lighting kit
    2. Which of the 4 effects made the most/best impact on your clip?
    3. Which lighting topic did you present?  Upload your PDF to the files, and link to it here as well.
  3. Embed the video below the questions.