Planning And Lighting The Set

Planning the lighting for a set can be tricky depend on what you want. The best method however for testing lighting is to have a monitor riged up to the line out of a camera this way you can see exactly what the lighting will look like on record.

The main lighting used for our quiz show will be that of three point lighting this as the name suggests requires three lights a Key Light, Fill light and Back light.

Key Light: This is a hard light or spotlight and provides the main lighting in this sequence, giving shape to the talent.

Fill Light: The fill light is used to adjust the contrast on the subject addingyet more depth.

Back Light: Finally the back light which makes the subject stand out from the background, also this will give even more depth thus finishing off the three point lighting.

So there you have it there are the three lights used for three point lighting below is an image of how the lighting may be set up.