Lighting Experiment (Jodie)

As I took the camera home, I experimented with lighting which was suitable for when we film someone looking at the CSI photos at the beginning of our film opening. i first looked at the effect of just using a spotlight in a dark room which is focused on the photos (but in this experiment I used a piece of paper). Here is what I filmed;



When the the paper in on the desk, it can easily been seen because the spotlight in focused on it. However when held up to the camera so that the audience can see the picture better, it becomes darkened because its blocking out the light to the camera. Therefore in my next experiment I tried putting a lamp behind the camera. Here is the result;




First I looked at what the picture would look like with just a source of light behind the camera. Although the piece of paper was seen it was still quite dim. So I next tried using a spotlight in front of the camera and a light behind it.

I believe this to be quite successful as the pictures are visible at all positions and angles because of the two points of lighting. Both sources of light area neccessity for the clarity of the pictures when they are on the desk and when held up to the camera. However we are trying to create quite a mysterious and dark feeling to the room the CSI pictures are being looked at in. This will be done by briefly filming in pitch black then turning on the spotlight after a few seconds. The spotlight will be focused on pictures already on the desk. Therefore both sources of will need to be turned on at the same time so that the light behind the camera is not noticed making it seem like the only source of light in the room is from the spotlight which will be in shot. This can be done on a countdown as we will be muting any sound picked up on the camera and laying the music track over the top.