Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Unit 22 3 Point Lighting

Back Light:
  • The back light in a production is the light that prevents the footage on screen looking dull and lifeless. It is also used to used to stop the imgae from blending in with the background. The position of the backlight is at a 45degrees angle pointing down. However it is can be found just behind and above the image being shown on the camera. 
Key Light:
  • As the most vital and important lighting of all three types, it provides the set with an a general light that makes visable everything a lit. It can sometimes be refered to as the 'primary' form of lighting. Primary, meaning first. This is light can be found located on the left hand side of the set at approximately 45degrees, depending on how spacious the set is. 
Fill Light:
  • This particular peice of lighting aids the camera on picking every little deatil on screen that may have been erased or blocked out by the two previous lighting methods. This is can be found on the right side of the set. This is in order to achieve the best possible result of using a fill light. 

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