Evaluation: Lighting - Tom Ayling

For lighting we had limited natural light because we filmed at the end of winter. Due to the lack of light we enhanced the contrast by using the slide bar on final cut express which allowed us to make all of our shots lighter and brighter.

the main effect we used to do with lighting is the when the lead singer is signing light house is an accident. We have a torch flashing in our lead singers face the flashing of the torch is meant to represent the image of a light house. The light house flash is also meant to represent a flash back of lead singer kissing a girl that he now reallies as a mistake. To achieve this we had to have the camera on a stand while I stood behind the camera and hold the flash light and attempt to flash the light in time with the beat. The difficulty with filming this is the fact that we could not see what where filming until we had finished that section of the song.

In the first few shot of the music video we used an over head projector and PowerPoint go give the effect of there being a light show going on behind the lead singer. To do this we had to spent time making 25 original slides which to do we drew numerous small squares using the line tool to create a strobe effect. When it came to filming we had to once again set the camera up on the stand while the lead singer stood up and positioned him self in the center of the camera shot by using the LCD screen on the side of the camera. While I sat next to the computer and tried to change the slides in time with music.