had a talk by a cinematographer from shooting gallery today about lighting. not exactly a talk, more like a hands on tutorial. i came late for the start of the lesson, so i missed what he was talking about. but shortly after i came the class was split into 3 groups. for my group, we were told to go out into the canteen and plan a wide shot and two close-ups of two people talking, with the bright daylight directly facing the sun. gave us quite a bit of a problem, trying to balance the lighting so that it won't be to jarring. tried out many different positions of the lighting, then changing the camera postion, but the background was either too bright or too ugly.
in the end the solution was to place a 1k light outside the canteen to shine it inwards, and 2 other kinos to balance it out. i was outside holding on to the 1k, making sure it doesn't topple, so i'm quite blur as to what they did to balance the light. couldn't hear or see anything from down there.
anyways, showed sarah and derrick my opening titles and asked what they thought of it, and sarah said that the speed at which the words comes out were too slow. tweaked it, rendered it out and our titles were set, complete with an audio soundtrack.
however, as i found out later that day, it was quite impossible to feed audio into the mixer, because jac doesn't have the audio jack. i suppose it can still work without audio though. dont think we're actually graded for that.
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