From the course: Video for Photographers: 1 Filmmaking Essentials
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Directing the viewer's attention
From the course: Video for Photographers: 1 Filmmaking Essentials
Directing the viewer's attention
- We can guide the viewers attention through camera movement or lens selection, the music and even the phase of editing. All those elements can and are used to influence how our viewer sees and understands our story. But lighting is the key ingredient. The fundamental role of lighting is to establish a time of day, a sense of time, a place, and to enhance the mood of the story. Through light we can bring the viewers attention and enhance subjects or objects that are within the frame and that will enhance our story or obscure them when they are detracting from it. A personal piece of advice; it's much easier to control one light at a time. Start small, start with one, start adding as you go and as needed and keep it simple.
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