From the course: Lighting a Video Interview
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Flagging
>> Ultimately lighting is about control, and there are several different ways to pull that off, right Jim? >> Yeah, I mean it's very seldom that you will put some kind of light in the room, or use natural light, and it's falling a, exactly where you want to to, but only exactly you want to to. So, in the world of controlled lighting, you use a variety of grip tools to shape and sculpt the light to only go where you want it go. >> I think one of the most common ones that's easy to use is going to be a flag. And these are essentially a piece of fabric in a frame, or it could be a card, but basically you're blocking the light so that it doesn't spill over. So, you're essentially putting up a barrier to cut the light off. >> Right, our principle tool of creating mood with lighting is the flag, or the scrim, or the net, or the silk. All these, all these things that are, you know, basically big rectangles of material that are controlling both the quality of the light and where it falls. >>…
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