ARB 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Key Light

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Arabic Language and Culture
• Course: ARB 3101
• Professor: May Telmissany

Document Summary

The standard lighting scheme for classical narrative cinema. In order to model an actor"s face (or another object) with a sense of depth, light from three directions is used. A backlight picks out the subject from its background, a bright key light highlights the object and a ll light from the opposite side ensures that the key light casts only faint shadows. A lighting scheme in which the ll light is raised to almost the same level as the key light. This produces images that are usually very bright and that feature few shadows on the principal subjects. This bright image is characteristic of entertainment genres such as musicals. A lighting scheme that employs very little ll light, creating strong contrasts between the brightest and darkest parts of an image and often creating strong shadows that obscure parts of the principal subjects.