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Lighting
Positioning your lights in the right place, is vital if you want the best possible lighting for your film.
Lighting set-up
This is the basic and most common way that people light their films. It is known as "Three Point Lighting", which surprisingly enough, uses three main lights!
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Step 1. Placing the Key Light
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First you have to use your most powerful light on either the left or right , this light is called the Key light.This provides a bright source of directional light, (a little like the sun would do), and pick out highlights on one side of the subject. The key light and camera should be on opposite sides of the talents line of sight.
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Step 2. Add the Fill Light
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This light is put on the opposite side as to where your key light is. This light, must be less powerful because otherwise your subject will have even light on both sides, which gives an image with little interest. (aim these lights at your subject, but make sure you have them far enough away from your subject otherwise they will look radioactive!) This is called the fill light, simply because fills out the dark areas in the image with a less powerful light. The fill light may cause unwanted shadows, so to prevent this, move the fill as close to the camera as possible, and diffuse it with a bounce board or diffusion paper.
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Step 3. Add the Back Light
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Finally, we have to put in a final light, called the back light. As the name suggests, this light it is used to illuminate the back of the subject to separate it from the background. This light is placed above and behind your subject. You must be careful that the light doesnt point directly into the lens, causing an ugly lens flare. (you can get lens hoods to prevent this).
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This is the very basic set up from which configurations can be moved around accordingly. Also there is a thing called a reflector, which is basically a metallic sheet that reflects light. You can make this easily by getting tin fo | | | |
