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Lightening  

What is cinematic lightening?

Cinematic lighting refers to the deliberate use of light in filmmaking to achieve specific visual and emotional effects. There are some lighting techniques that generally lead to this look,

•Key light/main light: 

The primary and most intense light source that illuminates the main subject. Its placement and intensity determine the overall look and mood of the scene.

•Back light: 

Backlight is light that hits an actor or subject from behind, typically higher than the subject it is exposing. 

•Rim light: 

 

A rim light is placed behind a subject that exposes the outline or rim of the subject with light. This lighting highlights the contours of a subject and creates a dramatic and mysterious effect.

•Rembrandt lighting: 

Rembrandt lighting consists of a single light source placed on a 45 degree offset from the subject, about 5 feet away. Positioned roughly two feet higher than eye level, the light source is angled slightly downward and hits the side of the face that is farthest away from the camera. A triangle forms on the subject's face.

•Ambient lighting:  

What is ambient light? Creating ambient lighting (also called mood lighting) involves using colour, temperature, and brightness to create a comfortable and even level of light throughout a space.

•Soft lighting:  

Soft light doesn’t refer to any lighting direction, but it’s a technique nonetheless. Cinematographers make use of soft lighting (even when creating directional lighting with the techniques above) for both aesthetic and situational reasons: to reduce or eliminate harsh shadows, create drama, replicate subtle lighting coming from outside, or all of the above.   

•Motivated lighting: 

Motivated lighting is used to imitate a natural light source, such as sunlight, moonlight, and street lamps at night. It’s also the kind of lighting that enhances practical lights, should the director or cinematographer wish to customize the intensity or coverage of the latter using a separate light source.

•Bounce lighting:  

Bounce lighting is about literally bouncing the light from a strong light source towards your subject or scene using a reflector or any light-colored surface, such as walls and ceilings. Doing so creates a bigger area of light that is more evenly spread out.

Another kind of lighting is Chiaroscuros lighting which is a scene with extreme lighting, lots of shadows, it is used to make a scene more dramatic.