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.