What You Need for Shooting Action | 3 Cinematic Lighting Tips

Shop the BIGGEST deals in film, video, and photo lighting for Black Friday and Cyber Monday here: http://bit.ly/3i66JdB Stay tuned to the end for a chance to win a prize! Shooting sequences with action and fast-moving parts requires you to think differently about camera and lighting. Instead of making your light as soft as possible, you may want your key light to be harsh. You may not even want a key light at all, and opt for a strong backlight to silhouette your characters instead. You may even want to change up your camera settings and camera movement. If you want to light for action, here are the things you need to know. In this boxing scene, we play up the action with handheld camera movement and little to no fill light. Valentina walks us through her ideas of recreating sunlight for continuity and using haze to see strong beams of light that add to the dynamic quality of the scene. We also talk about different diffusion fabrics and what works best for our scene. Because we wanted a very soft and even bounce light, we went with China silk diffusion - even though it’s meant for diffusing light. The angle of your light is important when you’re trying to recreate sunlight, so we positioned strong lights very high up and kept the hard quality to intensify the shot. As an added measure, we sprayed the talent with water to make their skin more reflective and to catch more light coming through the windows. As a general note, seeing hard light and high contrast ratios tends make a scene more intense and dramatic. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:41 - Concept 1:53 - Haze 2:32 - Lighting 3:51 - Fill Light 5:48 - Camera 6:47 - Remote Control 8:44 - Breakdown 9:51 - Light Rays 11:04 - Soft Light 11:45 - Reflectivity 12:34 - Breakdown #2 13:11 - Outro Want more free lighting and cinematography tutorials? Subscribe to us so you never miss an episode: https://goo.gl/QwazdM 🎥Subscribe to Aputure:    / aputurephoto     / aputure     / aputure.lighting     / aputurelighting   🎥Free Cinematography Lessons From Experts!    • Back to Set | Learn Cinematic Lighting   🎥Connect with the A-Team! Valentina:   / valentina.vee   🎥GET APUTURE GEAR: http://lddy.no/3dkv 🎥MUSIC: http://bit.ly/pb_aputure Summary: Aputure's YouTube channel provides free high quality cinematography, lighting, and filmmaking educational content to help you take your film projects to the next level.