lighting

Butterfly Lighting - Butterfly lighting is one of the oldest techniques for lighting a subject. Named for the butterfly-shaped shadow that forms underneath the subject's nose, this setup is a proven method to ensure your subject is well-lit in a pleasing manner.

Edge Lighting - Split lighting is a technique that produces a sense of drama to a portrait. This form of lighting is when half of the subject's face is lit, while the other half is left dark. The light is evenly divided over the subject. Below is an example of edge lighting and how to create an image using the lighting technique.

Rembrandt Lighting - Rembrandt lighting is a lighting technique that is used in studio portrait photography. It can be achieved using one light and a reflector, or two lights, and is popular because it is capable of producing images which appear both natural and compelling with a minimum of equipment.The technique rembrandt lighting 

Using Reflectors - Using a reflector helps with this by reflecting available light into those areas of your subjects face that would be in shadow without it. Quite often the best place for one is below your subjects face reflecting light back up into those dark under-spots. i experimented with using a gold reflector and found that with the gold reflector it filled the light on the subjects face and made it more 

Bristol Planning

i will be making a promotional video for the city of Bristol. The video will be made in a group and will be around 3 minutes long.

The main places we will be visiting will be, Park Street, Christmas steps and The bear pit. We will also try and gather Banskys Art work.

In our group we will all have specific role which will either be filing, setting up etc and then will all edit our own version of the footage individiually.

To the left is a map where all of the places we will be visiting are pin pointed and separated with numbers.

1) Bristol City Centre
2) Park Street
3) Christmas Steps
4) Bear pit
5) Temple meads station

The use of this map helps us work out the distance between all the locations we will be visiting. we have decided to start at the station then continue to Park street and finish at Bear pit as that makes our journey more fluent and simple. We have also found out some of Banksys art work is on park street so we can film and get a variety of shots using his art work. We also want to try and capture other attractions whilst we are there to add a variety of clips to our promotional video, for example Bristol University.

This is the weather forecast for Bristol on the day we are visiting to film. The weather looks quite mild which will allow decent lighting within our films and will enable us to shoot to our full ability.