BBC Lighting Workshop

On Friday 14th November, we attended the 21CC at the BBC Studios to learn about lighting workshop. We were first introduced to Shelley Love, a director. She specialized in surrealist/fantasy based work and we were able to see a piece of text which  she had produced. We were then introduced to a man who focused his area of work based on the lighting aspects used in videos. As well as showing us different pieces of work which showed a range of lighting techniques, he then gave us an example of how different lights can be used in order to present the figure in front of a camera in different ways. A backlight, Sidelight and Front light were used in order to present the figure or objects been filmed in different ways. 

We were then given a choice of 4 scenario's, 'news presenters', 'alien abduction', 'gangsters' and 'real life' which all had to revolve around the idea of 'Friday the 14th'. My group chose to film the scenario which was based around the real life aspects of the day. Fortunately, it was Children in Need and so we decided to film the people who were a part of the day. Though we had hoped in seeing celebrities to be included in our film, we improvised and used ourselves to represent celebrities. We also paid close attention on lighting as this was the basis of filming. We managed to use reflectors while filming Alex which was our presenter as there was minimal sun on that particular day and so the reflector helped to give a 'glow' onto his face.

I enjoyed being able to go around and film at the BBC studios as I was able to learn how to hold a camera better as well as the effects of lighting whilst filming.