This is an exercise in creating two short scenes with the intention of imbuing each scene with a particular atmosphere. I chose to do: Atmosphere 1: A depressed teenager at home Atmosphere 2: A warm sunny day Atmosphere 1: A Depressed Teenager at Home This exercise ended up resulting in two different videos, one that… Continue reading Project 9: Exercise Atmosphere

For this exercise I used three different reflectors; white, silver and gold. I started off by taking a photo with just one source of light to benchmark form. This light was a spotlight positioned to the left of the frame. I used two different subjects. In both these images it is clear that one side… Continue reading Project 9 – Exercise: Reflected Light

In this exercise we are asked to look for examples of light levels changing radically in a scene. The following shots comes from Ron Howard’s 2001 movie called A Beautiful Mind about the life of the mathematician John Nash. In the shots below, John Nash who has just started at Princeton University, is frustrated by… Continue reading Project 9 – Changes in light levels