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CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro
02:21 – Lighting Scenario 1: Beauty lighting
04:00 – High-key / Low-key lighting
05:06 – Light types (Key, Fill, Back, Rim…)
06:02 – Light Quality – Soft Lighting
08:54 – Lighting Scenario 2: Dramatic
08:56 – Light Ratio – Low / High Light Ratio
12:01 – Short (Reverse) / Broad Lighting
12:23 – Paramount Lighting
12:46 – Loop Lighting
13:52 – Motivated Lighting
16:40 – Lighting Scenario 3: Mysterious
17:28 – Hair Light
19:23 – Split Lighting, Rembrandt Lighting
21:21 – Lighting Scenario 4: Evil
25:03 – Lighting Scenario 5: Dynamic
27:27 – Checkerboard Lighting
28:35 – Lighting Scenario 6: Mystical
33:05 – Outro

QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU START LIGHTING
1. What is the focus of the shot?
2. What is our relationship to the character?
3. What techniques support our decisions?

LIGHTING TERMS
? Key Light
The first and usually most important light in a lighting setup, highlight the form and dimension of the subject

? Back Light
Hits your subject from behind, creates depth in your scene to prevent it from looking two-dimensional, divides subject from the background

? Rim Light
Back light illuminating the subject from the side

? Top Light
Highlights the top of the subject’s head, sometimes called Hair light, it can create a halo effect

? Fill Light
Fills the shadows created by the key light

? Soft Light
With bigger light sources, the light quality and shadows get softer

? Hard Light
With smaller light source, the light quality and shadows get harder

? Lighting Ratio
Describes how much brighter the highlight side of your subject is, than the shadow side of your subject

? Low Light Ratio
Low contrast between the light side and shadow side of your subject

? High Light Ratio
High contrast between the light side and shadow side of your subject

? High Key Lighting
Lighting setup with a reduced light ratio, filling your scene with light

? Low Key Lighting
Lighting setup with a high light ratio, filling the scene with shadows

? Short / Reverse Lighting
Placing the Key either slightly behind or at an acute angle to the subject, rather than simply letting it fall square on the face of your character

? Broad Lighting
The portion of the subject’s face that is turned toward the camera is lit most brightly

? Paramount Lighting
Paramount lighting is a lighting setup where a strong key light is placed directly in front of the subject with a slight downward angle

? Loop Lighting
The light source is above and slightly to the side of the subject, creates a small ”loop” nose shadow cast onto the cheek.

? Split Lighting
Key light is lighting only one side of the subject, the other side of the subject is in shadow

? Rembrand Lighting
Key Lights is placed far to the side, shadow from the nose connects with shadows on the side of the face, creating a small triangle of highlight on the cheekbone

? Checkerboard Lighting
The background is light on the dark side of the subject, but dark behind the bright side of the subject, creating a checkerboard effect

? Motivated Lighting
Motivated lighting is when the light in the scene imitates a natural source within the scene, you don’t come up with nonsensical lights

PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF COLOR
? Orange – warmth, kindness, happiness, exoticism
? Yellow – imbalance, nervousness, obsessiveness, insecurity, madness
? Green – nature, danger, sickness, rot
? Blue / Cyan – calmness, coldness, sadness, night, detachment
? Violet / Purple – sci-fi, mysticism, fantasy, eroticism
? Red – danger, aggression, passion, love, anger
? Pink – femininity, beauty, innocence, carelessness

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