Setting up the lights
Theatre and Film · Grade 11 · about 40 minutes
Set up simple lights safely and stand them correctly.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
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- Design in film
- Costume design
- Make-up and hair
- Props
- The set
- How the components work together
- Scouting spaces for a shoot
- Designing a set
- Using costume and make-up in a shoot
- Continuity in design
- The three-point lighting
- Light and mood
- Setting up the lights
- Keeping the light consistent
- Sound equipment
- Recording clean sound
- Sound for a scene
- Shooting the short film
- Watching, feedback and the edit
- Appreciating production design