Research: Lighting in Film
The person tasked with lighting is called the Gaffer. A few of the Gaffer's responsibilities is to test the safety with electrical equipment so none of the staff gets harmed, sets up the lighting to create the perfect scene he is tasked in setting, and to control and assemble the lighting crew.
Bob Finley III, one of the most famous and successful Gaffers and is very skilled in action movies with fast paced scenes and fight scenes. A lot of notable movies from Bob Finley III is the old Spiderman series, Antman, and the notorious and revolutionizing Matrix movie.
Definitions of elements:
Lighting: The ability to use lighting to capture a mood in a scene.
Direction: The direction is the combination of both camera shots and lighting to set a scene. It is used to create a pace or rhythm.
Quality: The resolution that the scene is captured. A horrible resolution may show blurriness or create a sense of closure as it may be really close or really far. Quality can also be used to create a subject of attention.
Source: Point where a subject originates.
Color: Used to set an emotion.
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