Film studies : January 2020

The key light is the main source for illumination.
The fill light alleviates shadows cast by the key light.
In studio shooting in classical Hollywood cinema, the tree point lighting was customary: in addition to key, fill and back lights.
Back light illuminated the subject from above or behind, calling for rearrangement of lights for almost every new framing of a scene.
High key lighting designates a brilliantly lit scene with minimal shadows and a bright and dominant key light.
In high contrast lighting, there is a considerable contrast between bright lightened shadow.
Low key lighting involves illumination towards the darker end of the scale and a less bright key light, producing a scene with a good deal of shadows.
Arc lights which was provided a strong and intense light created by an electrical current jumping between two carbon rods- hence the term 'arc'.
Alongside development in film stock and to match filmmakers' ambitions to work in location, the use of tungsten halogen lighting became established.
Fay lights: set of four, eight or even sixteen lights built into a single high-power light panel.
Cold lighting is based on florescent light sources. the original barrier to the use of this type of light was twofold: cold lighting as not powerful enough for illuminating and more significantly, its colour spectrum is biased towards the green or violet and produces images with a green or purple tint.

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