Lighting Practice

Today, we began to use lighting effects to show the use of lighting and its uses in film. We did so by taking photographs and using a mobile phones' light in different angles to create different effects. Every had an opportunity to use the camera, the lighting and act to get a feel for each role.

Firstly we used artificial light looking upwards at Andreas to show the mood of possible confusion or sadness, this is shown by the light focusing more on his mouth and above his eyes where sadness is shown most on the face.

We also took the shot from above to make Andreas look more intimidated as the light is shown more when the photo was taken at a higher angle.

We used two artificial lights for this picture of Max, one was placed on the left part of his body and one was placed above his head but to the left to make the whole left part of his head brighter than the right side. This is shown to make Max look happy, as the light shines on his smile and it makes him show a curious/happy face.

We also took this shot from above to make the light show more and that Max shows a larger smile when his head is leaning backwards to make him look upwards. In addition to this, we used the high angle shot to show Max's glasses reflect a shadow onto his face which show a good effect of making his face look secretive.

The use of sideways light is also useful in showing a sinister expression shown in the photo of me. We used artificial light in the photo, one light was placed to the left of my face showing one half and the other light was placed to the right of his head lighting up the background to make the other half of my face darker and to contrast the light.

This is used to create binary opposites in where the dark and the light meet and to create an effect to make my look more evil and to make the audience believe (or think) that he is a protagonist just by using the light and his facial expression.

In this photo of Max, we used the natural light seeping through from behind the blinds to attempt to make an effect. There was one artificial light placed next to the camera aiming at me but in this photo it did not come out in a good quality.

The light from behind is supposed to show that there could be something else in the shot to look at apart from my head. This is useful to make multiple things happen at once during the shot.


In this image, we used the natural light in the room to make Andreas' head stand out to the background. Even though the light in the background is fairly similar to Andreas' head, his hair appears to stand out due to lighting from the background emphasising his face and hair.