Blog #5 Inspiring Lighting Techniques

When it comes to lighting I personally love using natural lighting or the lighting that is available on location I also like back lighting a subject too create a very nice silhouette. I'm also completely addicted to black lights, lasers and party gels, pretty much all you see in raves and concerts. Most of my lighting inspirations come from music videos because the lights along with music evokes emotions so easily.

Lindsey Stirling - Elements (Music Video)

• The use of different lighting styles and color temperatures help establish each element as its own character

AFI - Girl's Not Grey (Music Video)

• Uses different color temperature to separate fantasy from reality

Skrillex - Summit feat. Ellie Goulding (Music Video)

• Uses various lighting techniques and color temperatures in one music video

Tron Legacy

• Use of blue lights to identify the digital world
• Different light colors are also used to identify characters.
• Blues and whites for protagonists
• Reds, orange, and yellow for antagonists

Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King (Music Video)

• shot in black and white mostly silhouetted and a lot of shadows

The Used - I Caught Fire (Music Video)

• A lot of black light and strobes used for the bands shots
• Natural lighting and fire light used for story shots