Day 05 Tuesday 280409

I woke up late today and I was almost late for class. I was like thinking oh shit! Today the guest going to give a talk on lighting. I took a taxi down to school. When I arrived, class has not started. Argh! Waste of money! The guest came in and his name was Roszali. He is a Director of Photography (DOP) for a production house called Shooting Gallery. Some of our seniors also went there for their SIP.

Roszali divided us into groups to do a exercise of lighting the scene. He went around to help us and taught us the ways to light up a scene in different situations. He taught us how to use the natural light as key light and add in other lights to balance it, make a contrast. For my group, we were supposed to light up a classroom scene with three people sitting beside each other. Roszali taught us to use lights and shine on the whiteboard to reflect the light on the talents face. He also taught us to use bouncing off method to light up a scene.

Today I had fun and learnt more about lighting. Before the class ends, we had a screening of all groups clips and we talked about how we light up the scene.

In the afternoon, my group mates and I went to the TV Stuido to have rehearsal again before the recording tomorrow. We also thought of how to set up the lighting for the interview and prepared the props we need to design the set.

I have been searching for production house websites and I found a few companies which I am interested in. They are Blowfish Pictures, DreamForest Productions and Zhao Wei Films. I sort of like the works they produced.