Amanda Pollak Assignment 1

Aaron Dallin Assignment 1

Henry Kugler Assignment 1

Greg Bajan Assignment 1

Class Two, Electricity

Our second meeting started off with a few clips from the BMW mini film series, The Hire. After viewing Hostage, we discussed using color temperature to help identify characters. We also touched on the use of atmospheric elements, such as fog/smoke, and again went over the importance of lighting motivation. Beat the Devil was followed by a conversation about color. We talked about how the eye is eventually tricked into believing an overall tint of color is white, and the way to combat that phenomenon is to insert the opposite color into the scene with lighting or props (as in: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover).


Then, we worked on re-creating shadows we first observed made by sunlight. These will be posted in upcoming days.



David Sneath, of ACS Sound and Lighting, guest lectured on electricity - practical applications and what we should know to be safe on set. Quiz on that and a few other things in the next class. And, if you are actually reading this, question number six is, "Name one concern or issue when dealing with an HMI light." If you recall, this was the question David asked me if we even had to discuss any longer since most people aren't shooting film. We decided it was indeed important information and talked about it in class.

Everyone then gave me money and I spent the next few days in sticker shock over the price of foam core, but finally got most everything we need to build our lights next class.

Allyson Smith, Assignment 1

Welcome, class one

Welcome to Lighting 463.

Last week we compared some styles of lighting. We admired director of photography Conrad Hall's work in the film Searching for Bobby Fischer. We discussed the natural quality of his lighting, and how he allows the actors to move in and out of light, and doesn't focus entirely on lighting faces, but rather in creating mood and moving the eye to different parts of a carefully crafted frame.


We discussed shadows, and talked about how to best achieve shadows using a fresnel light. We also went over some practical tips for setting lights and c-stands, and introduced a few terms for various instruments and tools of the trade.

We also talked about color temperature and measuring that temperature using the Kelvin scale.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's homework assignments and our attempt to recreate what you saw in nature using artificial light.