Lighting - Shadows

Creating Shadows in an experimental set up.



Reflecting light



Using low key lighting 



Using high key lighting


My video's were very effective in using light in an experimental set up. My strengths in this task were definitely the creating of shadows in the video's as I used lighting very well in videos 1 and 3 to create shadows in different ways, in video 1 I was able to create and move shadows on the wall and in video 3 I was able to create a shadow across the face of the lego character, giving it a mysterious noire feel. My video's area of weakness is that some of them are more like pictures as toy's have been used for footage rather than people. This therefore means that the videos can seem quite boring as there isn't much going on in them.

The main technical challenge which I faced was with lighting. I struggled to get the lighting correct for sometime as videos at first were either over exposed or under exposed. I overcame this by constantly changing my lighting set up, whether that was drawing or opening blinds to allow more or less light into the room or using LED lights to adjust lighting. 

I have made a range of video's using lego characters in order to experiment with lighting and create shadow effects in an experimental set up. By doing this it has helped to further my understanding of lighting and how it can be altered. To improve my videos I would use people rather than toys to make them more interesting and to allow more movement.