Welcome to week 6. This week was on Dialectical Montage, a style of editing, using second photography footage. For this short film, I had the role of the Lighting technician. My job was mainly on the filming day; illuminate the set. I strictly worked with the cinematographer and director. In movies, lights need to have a meaning, “where this light comes from”, for the story, the location, and for continuity. Lights is a tool of storytelling in the hands of the cinematographer and the director.
For the scenes in the house I mostly used the three points Hollywood lighting scheme; Key light, fill light and backlight. For the scene were Aaron is working we have natural daylight from the window and the door (backlight and fill light), the light coming from the monitor (fill light) and a Tungsten light as a key light (Figure 1). For the scene on the living room, we used three tungsten lights and the daylight from the window (Figure 2). For the scene in the kitchen, we used two tungsten lights and the daylight from the window (Figure 3).
Unfortunately, because of the COVID-19, this is our last video for this module. Overall, I think that our group worked well; we learnt a lot, we understood what we did wrong and what we did well. After these weeks I’m more than sure that I will be cinematographer and director.
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