Lighting experiment

By Takomborerwa Mazarura

• Whilst practising and during shooting the video I saw that there was a shadow appearing behind the artists so I felt that I should conduct an experiment to find out how to get rid of the shadow. I could not find the information I wanted from the internet because I did not know the right technical terminology to ask the question “ how do i get rid of a shadow on the backdrop for my music video.

• The first thing I did was to set up the conditions that were in the video

Unwanted shadow

Light substitution-household lamp

“teddy” substitute for the actors/s

Back drop

• The second thing I did was to try and position a secondary light on top of the teddy.

From this research I realised that positioning a light at such a high angle would be difficult.

No shadow ...yes

But...

The light is another household lamp with the shade removed

• I tried to place the light on one side of the teddy

From this experiment I saw that the lighting removed more shadow however there is a contrast of light between the two sides which is not good

I could place another light on both sides of the actors however i do not have enough lights to achieve this.

• I then moved the teddy closer to the first light then I placed the secondary light behind the teddy.

No shadow !!!

From this inoticed that the teddy has more of a presence in the image as it seems he is coming out of the light. It reminds me of music videos ihave seen in the past.

I think this is the setup we are going to use for the video however the secondary light will not be visible