BBC Lighting Workshop

On Friday 14th of November, our media group went to the BBC studio's to learn about lighting, filming and directing. In the morning we had a light workshop with the lighting director. His job was to make sure all the lighting in films and music videos were decent and had the right colour and light for films. During his workshop we learned about the different types of light and also the different lighting that is used for different situations, (e.g for an interview on tv there would be a soft light, this would make the background clear where there are no hard shadows or bright areas of contrast. To show the different lighting techniques that were used in filming, Alex was chosen to sit down on a chair in front of a camera and different types of lights so that the class could understand the various types of lights that are used during filming.

Another workshop that we had was with a woman called Shelly Love, who was the director of films. Shelly Love mostly directed for fantasy films. Both of these workshops were combined together. During the workshop she showed us a film that she directed, most of the characters in the film were clowns in a circus. We were able to see the different shots and lighting techniques that she chose to produce that particular clip.

In the afternoon, we all got into four seperate groups of 3 and 4 to create a news report for the day. There were 3 reports; "Incident at Gangster Head Quarters," "An alien abduction," and "A real life incident" the real life incident turned out to be a report about children in need. Also there was a news report, this is what my group (Finella and Gamze ) created. In this news report we had to include and introduction, and link all the other reports that the other groups created, into ours. Finella and I were the characters of the news report and Gamze was the director and the camera woman aswell. For the news report we used three lights; a soft light- which was placed in front of us so that there wouldn't be shadows in the background and so that it would also have a brighter contrast. There was also a light at the back of us and another one at the side. The shots that were used didn't really change because it was a news report which meant the angle of the camera stayed the same throughout most of the filming.