Lighting Concepts Flashcards
What is a rudimentary method used in lighting for film and tv that establishes basic concepts used in professional sets?
Three-point lighting
What makes up the 3-point lighting technique?
- Key light
- Fill light
- Back light
What do you yell out when turning on a light so others know and aren’t blinded.
“Striking!”
What are lighting styles commonly identified as?
- High-key lighting
2. Low-key lighting
What are the framed wire screens that can be dropped into the front of a lighting instrument?
Scrims
What controls the intensity of lights?
Dimmers
What reduces the light by 30%?
A single green frame
What is a type of flag that can reduce intensity without altering color temperature?
Nets
What is the sharp contrast between light and shadow?
Low key
What reduces the light by 60%?
A double red frame
What are rigged onto C-stands by the grips?
Nets
What is is that reduces intensity without altering color temperature?
Scrims
What happens to color when wattage decreases?
The color temperature also decreases
What is it that’s used to hold a variety of reflectors using a unique keg design that allows for nesting several stands within a small space?
C Stands
What is the primary light source used in a scene?
Key light
What is a metal stand used for holding lights, cutters and anything else you need stabilized?
C-stand
What is the white material used to soften the light source?
Diffusion
What is the thick, black cloth used for blacking our windows and covering equipment and crew members when they’re in reflections.
Duvetyne
What is a piece of cut-off foliage to provide the lighting effect of a tree shadow on the subject?
Dingle
What is the heavy bag called that’s full of lead used to weigh down stands?
Shot bag
How is the intensity of light measured?
The intensity of light is measured in foot-candles.
As a general rule, the key light is roughly how far away from the camera axis?
Roughly 45 degrees
What light is usually the strongest and has the most influence in the look of the scene?
Key light/or main light
What is the secondary light that is placed opposite the key light?
Fill light
What are the four basic attributes of lighting?
- Color temperature
- Quality (aka coherence)
- Intensity
- Directionality
What kind of light creates clearly lined shadows?
Hard light
What kind of light covers a wider area with more diffuse light, minimizes shadow and reduces detail and texture.
Soft light
A cloudy day is an example of what kind of light?
A soft light
To match a daylight temperature light to tungsten, you can attach what kind of gel?
A color temperature orange (CTO) gel
What kind of light blends the edges of shadows?
Soft light
The quality (or coherence) of light refers to how the light behaves in creating shadows and is determined by what?
The size of the light source relative to the subject
Diffusion can also be accomplished by what?
Gels
Hand squeezers (dimmers) come in sizes ranging from how many watts?
600 watts
What kind of light is evenly lit with few shadows?
High key
What is always placed on a stand before we walk away?
Sandbag (aka dirt)
What are some examples of common diffusion gels?
- Frosts
- Grid cloth
- Opal
- Tough spun
What are lumens (the amount of light) calculated into?
Watts
What light has twice the intensity of the back light?
Fill light
To match a tungsten instrument to daylight or HMI, we can attach what kind of gel?
A color temperature blue (CTB) gel
An undesired light bulb, a focused spotlight and sun in a clear day, is an example of what?
Hard light
