BBC Lighting Workshop

Last week Friday, on the 14th November as an AS Media Students we were invited on a one day workshop course in Filming and Lighting, at the BBC Studios in White City. This workshop was an excellent opportunity for us, Media Students to develop our skills and perhaps achieve our qualification for Year 12.

We arrived there around 10.00am and we spoke to Shelly who was a female director. She showed us couple of examples of her short films, that she has produced. As a class we then had to ask any questions that we had of the films in terms of how it was produced (filmed), and what sort of lighting was used to create the particular atmosphere of the film. Later on during the workshop, the second half was run by a man called Richard (I think) who is an expert in lighting - as this is his job. He talked about lighting and different types of lighting, for example he showed us different kind of lights and different reflectors. He also showed us the different coloured gels - which is used to create an effect and the mood for the film.

Just before lunch we was split into 4 different small groups, where each of us was given a different scenario to work on. In my group it was me, Fenelia and Luciana. Our scenario was the news reports where Luciana & Fenelia were the news reports and I was the camera person. It was nice being the camera person, because now I am comfortable working with cameras.