13P1-04 - Lighting Research

For our final project we aimed to create and overall more professional and varied music video as suggested in our feedback both from Tanya and Peers, below is our research into different potential lighting methods.

Three Point Lighting:


Three point lighting is a favorite in TV and Movie productions around the world, it allows the cinematographers to cast a favorable and natural light on the entire subject, eliminating unwanted shadows and blemishes, it consists of, naturally, 3 lights, The Key Light, The Fill Light and Back Light.


Below: a conventional 3 Point lighting arrangement:

4 Point Lighting:

4 Point lighting is very similar to three point lighting, however includes the use of the "Background Light" typically all the lighting is used to illuminate the main focal point (Actor, Prop etc...) however 4 point lighting is beneficial when you want to illuminate background objects or scenery and further reduce shadows which may be cast from the background to the foreground shot.