Pre-Production: Lighting in Film
Film lighting is talking about the direction, quality, source, or color of light. It is very important in a film because it creates a visual mood, atmosphere, and sense of meaning for the audience. Lighting helps the audience to understand where they should focus or look.
The person who is responsible for the lighting on a film set is called the cinematographer. Some of the responsibilities they take on are choosing a visual style for the film, determining the camera set up for each shot, and Determining the lighting for every scene.
A well-known cinematographer today is Robert Richardson. His visual style consists of hard lighting from the top and blown-out rim lighting. He also prefers manual cranes for smooth motions. Some of the films he was a part of were The Aviator, The Hateful Eight, and JFK.
The different elements of lighting is direction, quality, source and color. Lighting direction is where the location that the light source is placed about the subject. Lighting quality describes the softness of its shadows and how it behaves. Lighting source is about the brightness of the light and how that correlates to other lights in the shot. The lighting color is based upon the color temperature of the light; basically how warm or cold it is.
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