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Good evening, we are here outside the School of Filmmaking in Medellin, Colombia.
Our tip this week has to do with lighting. For this we have invited Gabriel Rodriguez.
- Hello, how are you. - He is part of the school team.
- Gabo, what do you have there? - Let's see Dalkis. Here I have one of our lights,
It's an Arri light of 650W. We use it for commercials and short films that we produce here in Centrocom.
It's a common kind of light that people use in short films and other projects in many places.
I'll show you the light a little bit. These are the barn doors.
Some people see them and don't know what they are for.
They are used for directing the light toward a certain point.
The nice about this light is that it has a lens called Fresnel,
which causes the light to focus or flood accordingly.
It is very interesting to work with this kind of light, and to work with lighting in general.
- And what is the difference between this light and a light in your home?
- Well, first it's about power. This light has 650 Watts, it is at least eight or ten times more powerful than a home light
so it makes a difference when you light a room with this light versus a home light.
- So according to the location and the time of day you use this kind of light?
- Yes of course. I want to show you some pictures.
- The lighting also gives context and assists the storytelling, for example to communicate emotions in the picture.
For example this is a hard light, using closed barn doors, directing the light toward the characters,
and where you can see a hard contrast in the light, so it is a hard light.
This is another kind of light, a soft light, where you can see that everything is lit and bright,
Obviously every lighting is connected to the story.
I'd like to show something else that we use a lot. To create that kind of soft light, we use so called diffusers.
They are almost like tracing papers. They are called diffusers.
So you attach these to the barn doors with hardwood pins, and cover the whole area in front of the light,
which makes the light spread out more around the subject.
- So it diffuses the light? So this is more for soft light? - Exactly, and you can also use it for raising the light level,
to help the level of the camera a little bit according to the location.
- Okay so if you want to learn more about these things, you are welcome to the School of Filmmaking in Medellin Colombia. Bye.
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