Lighting Workshop

Before we began planning our opening sequence, we took part in a lighting workshop. This was done to teach us skills using lighting and a green screen to broaden our range of skills and allow us to create a more professional look opening sequence.

We got try out three point lighting, where we learnt about using key lights, fill lights, back lights in order to create a smoothly lit, high-key effect. In our opening sequence, we could incorporate this into the happier scenes in the dance studio to create a happy, typical day-to-day effect.

We also tried out low-key lighting using a single light to create a more dramatic effect. From this, we learned about the importance of positioning the spotlight to well light the subject balanced with creating a big enough difference in light and shadows to reflect an eerie and scary mood. In our opening sequence, we could use this type of lighting in the alleyway to create a scary atmosphere and enhance the tension between characters.

Finally, we also learnt how to set up, film and edit together green screen scenes. In this, we were taught about how it is important to light the subjects to not create shadows on the green screen and how to edit together on Premier Pro with the desired background. Using a green screen in our opening sequence may not be as useful but it did allow us to think about being creative with background and also editing effects into our opening, making the sequence look more interesting and exciting.