Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Lighting

As we chose to set our music video outdoors at night-time this meant that we needed various pieces of lighting to make sure our video was clear and looked professional.


For the party and dancing sequences we used this lighting in order to make sure everything could be seen clearly. We were able to put these at either end of the area in which we were filming and this produced enough light to film these sections. We only chose to use these lights for these sections as the rest of the scenes that we needed to film were quite fast paced and involved a lot of moving around and moving these lights would have been time consuming and difficult. We also had to hire a generator in order to power these lights in the wood but the strength of these lights meant that we were able to use them in between filming in order to light the space we were working as it got darker throughout the night.

The main light that we used for the filming of our video was a light which we attached to our camera. This light was incredibly bright and this meant that we were easily able to light up the actors enough to ensure they would be clearly seen in the final video. This meant that filming was much easier as we were able to get a variety of shots as the light moved with the camera, meaning that what we were filming was always lit. We also took the light off the bracket and held it which meant we were able to easily move it about and light what we needed, as well as creating various effects with the lighting in order to make our video look more professional.