Lighting Concepts

Question 1

What is a rudimentary method used in lighting for film and tv that establishes basic concepts used in professional sets?

Answer 1

Three-point lighting

Question 2

What makes up the 3-point lighting technique?

Answer 2

1. Key light
2. Fill light
3. Back light

Question 3

What do you yell out when turning on a light so others know and aren’t blinded.

Answer 3

“Striking!”

Question 4

What are lighting styles commonly identified as?

Answer 4

1. High-key lighting

2. Low-key lighting

Question 5

What are the framed wire screens that can be dropped into the front of a lighting instrument?

Answer 5

Scrims

Question 6

What controls the intensity of lights?

Answer 6

Dimmers

Question 7

What reduces the light by 30%?

Answer 7

A single green frame

Question 8

What is a type of flag that can reduce intensity without altering color temperature?

Answer 8

Nets

Question 9

What is the sharp contrast between light and shadow?

Answer 9

Low key

Question 10

What reduces the light by 60%?

Answer 10

A double red frame

Question 11

What are rigged onto C-stands by the grips?

Answer 11

Nets

Question 12

What is is that reduces intensity without altering color temperature?

Answer 12

Scrims

Question 13

What happens to color when wattage decreases?

Answer 13

The color temperature also decreases

Question 14

What is it that’s used to hold a variety of reflectors using a unique keg design that allows for nesting several stands within a small space?

Answer 14

C Stands

Question 15

What is the primary light source used in a scene?

Answer 15

Key light

Question 16

What is a metal stand used for holding lights, cutters and anything else you need stabilized?

Answer 16

C-stand

Question 17

What is the white material used to soften the light source?

Answer 17

Diffusion

Question 18

What is the thick, black cloth used for blacking our windows and covering equipment and crew members when they’re in reflections.

Answer 18

Duvetyne

Question 19

What is a piece of cut-off foliage to provide the lighting effect of a tree shadow on the subject?

Answer 19

Dingle

Question 20

What is the heavy bag called that’s full of lead used to weigh down stands?

Answer 20

Shot bag

Question 21

How is the intensity of light measured?

Answer 21

The intensity of light is measured in foot-candles.

Question 22

As a general rule, the key light is roughly how far away from the camera axis?

Answer 22

Roughly 45 degrees

Question 23

What light is usually the strongest and has the most influence in the look of the scene?

Answer 23

Key light/or main light

Question 24

What is the secondary light that is placed opposite the key light?

Answer 24

Fill light

Question 25

What are the four basic attributes of lighting?

Answer 25

1. Color temperature 2. Quality (aka coherence) 3. Intensity 4. Directionality

Question 26

What kind of light creates clearly lined shadows?

Answer 26

Hard light

Question 27

What kind of light covers a wider area with more diffuse light, minimizes shadow and reduces detail and texture.

Answer 27

Soft light

Question 28

A cloudy day is an example of what kind of light?

Answer 28

A soft light

Question 29

To match a daylight temperature light to tungsten, you can attach what kind of gel?

Answer 29

A color temperature orange (CTO) gel

Question 30

What kind of light blends the edges of shadows?

Answer 30

Soft light

Question 31

The quality (or coherence) of light refers to how the light behaves in creating shadows and is determined by what?

Answer 31

The size of the light source relative to the subject

Question 32

Diffusion can also be accomplished by what?

Answer 32

Gels

Question 33

Hand squeezers (dimmers) come in sizes ranging from how many watts?

Answer 33

600 watts

Question 34

What kind of light is evenly lit with few shadows?

Answer 34

High key

Question 35

What is always placed on a stand before we walk away?

Answer 35

Sandbag (aka dirt)

Question 36

What are some examples of common diffusion gels?

Answer 36

1. Frosts 2. Grid cloth 3. Opal 4. Tough spun

Question 37

What are lumens (the amount of light) calculated into?

Answer 37

Watts

Question 38

What light has twice the intensity of the back light?

Answer 38

Fill light

Question 39

To match a tungsten instrument to daylight or HMI, we can attach what kind of gel?

Answer 39

A color temperature blue (CTB) gel

Question 40

An undesired light bulb, a focused spotlight and sun in a clear day, is an example of what?

Answer 40

Hard light