Lighting is the foundation of any scene, but using unique lighting setups to elevate production design is often overlooked.
Here are four ways you can use light to dress your set.
Apart from sound, good lighting can make or break your scene. Any filmmaker with a deft hand can make the cheapest potato look like an ARRI Alexa. While that’s a gross exaggeration, the fundamental idea is sound.
Lighting is the foundation of your image.
But there’s another way to look at lighting. Not as a way to illuminate, but to add practical elements to your scenes as set design.
The lads at COOPH looked at four unique lights that do just that. Take a peek here.
Production Design with Lights
The four lights that the COOPH photographers looked at were a sound-sensitive light bar, a rainbow projector lamp, a star projector lamp, and a party light. Best of all, each light is well under $50.
Cinematographers might look at these lamps and scoff, but any set designer would foam at the mouth for these cheap, creative solutions.
Author: Yaroslav Altunin
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
