Planning - Lighting

Once our group has finished creating the timeline for our music video we chose to discuss the kind of light we’d like within our three elements. The following is the agreement we came to after discussing our possibilities for a while. For the component that represents our lead singer we want our artist to be lit subtly from all sides so as to bring the attention of the audience towards her. Furthermore this will create a strong contrast between the black background and the artist, which will be pleasing to the eye. When contemplating what type of light we should use with our performance/paint element we considered that we want the dancers to be engulfed by the paint. Therefore we thought that for the performance to look most pleasing we should place a strong light a on either the right or left. Through the following we hope to achieve the most out of the vivid colours of the paint in combination with the dancers. Additionally this would allow the dancers and paint to appear more stimulating as there would be considerable contrast present within the dancers and the paint. For our third element we considered using a subtle light positioned in front of the screens. The notion is that the screens themselves would provide most of the light for the shoot, but in order to achieve a higher level of exposure we decided to use an additional subtle light. The concepts above represent the general ideas we have for lightning of our music video.  Although as a group we have agreed that we are still going to develop upon this notion in order to utilize the lights we have access to in the best possible manner.