Assignment #7 - Show Me the Light!

Home lighting studio.  Image from Pixabay

 Beginning students are continuing to study lighting and today's Power Point is all about lighting INSTRUMENTS and what they do and how to use them.

While advanced students should already know this information, it might help to review it for your next assignment, see below.

Beginning students are to go through this Power Point and read the additional article about lighting video at night.  Then, the exercise is this:

Create your own cookie!  (cuculoris)  Take a piece of construction paper, cardstock, or cardboard and cut different shapes in it.  Then, get a flashlight, put the cookie in front of the flashlight to create a light pattern on your subject and create a short scene.  If you want to use your family or friends in this scene, that's fine or even a pet or stuffed animal as your subject that would be fine.  All you need is one scene.  Perhaps it's late at night and your subject is feeling stressed about all the homework that he/she has to complete.  Your subject is sitting in front of a window, musing to him/herself about all this work, and the light from the streetlight is coming in the window and illuminating the face.  As you know, you don't really need to be in front of a window, but you can pretend with a cookie!  Or maybe your subject is in front of a window during the day and the light coming in the window between the tree limbs in the wind creates a kind of splotchy shadowy area that moves on the face or body of your subject.  You get the idea.

Send me the short scene by uploading it to Google Drive and send me a "shareable link", making sure to turn link sharing on. Your scene is due to me by Monday, May 4th.

Here is the Power Point:

Here is the article I'd like you to read:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TsmJvKF3kKS5265YWIP9DldqHzNPhpuH/view?usp=sharing


Advanced students - here is your assignment.  For the next week or so, I want you to create a documentary on your life and the life of your family as you experience this pandemic.  Be detailed about how you and your family are spending your time and be detailed about how you feel about each thing as it happens.  The root word of documentary  is "document".  To document means to make a record of something.
-Use proper framing, lighting, and audio techniques.
-Edit it on your phone or on your computer.
-Create a title page at the beginning and a credits page at the end and I want to see YOU on camera at the very beginning introducing us to your documentary and what it is about.
-Create this video as if you were telling someone from another planet what it has been like for you and your family and how you have felt about it.
-A range of emotions throughout your piece is good, as that would be the most realistic.
-No more than five minutes long is plenty.

Good luck and let me know if you have any questions.  This documentary is due to me by Wednesday, May 6th.

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