Planning and Lighting the Set

The lighting of the set is very important as we need to be able to see the show. In shows like the Mock the Week and Friday night with Johnathan Ross have a incredibly complex lighting rig as they have all of the show lighted in different ways espically when artists perform. With our show we did not use a elaborate lighting scheme as we did not need it, having said that we did use a fairly effective lighting scheme. We got taught about 3 point lighting. 3 point lighting is a very simple but fairly effective way of lighing. As you have probably guessed it has 3 lights involved the first is called a back light and this is situated behind the subject and provides an outline for the subject so the audience can see there silouette. The second light is the tungsten light, this provides hard light so in general it is a spotlight. This lighting is the equivalent to the sun in the studio, this light will only make the subject brighter. The final light is a cool light and this will give soft light on the other side of the face to the hard light, in turn this makes the subject well lit and also is simply and easy to do.