Lighting Design Flashcards

Flashcards based on lecture notes about lighting, covering topics such as the law of form, highlights, light direction, modifying light, and elements of lighting design.

What does the law of FORM state?

There are only 2 surfaces, flat planed or curved, sometimes a combination of both. CUBE, CYLINDER, AND SPHERE

Which form has the easiest highlight to predict?

CYLINDER

What is the brightest thing you can see in a lit object?

A SPECULAR HIGHLIGHT

What direction of light is used to diminish form, depth, and texture?

FRONT

The 3:00 position on the lighting clock would be considered what?

PURE SIDELIGHT

Backlight is the hardest direction of light to deal with because of what?

FLARE, CONTRAST, EXPOSURE

What 3 things determine the effects of the main light on an object?

SUBJECT, VIEWER, AND LIGHT

A flag is used in lighting to do what?

BLOCK LIGHT

What can hold a gobo arm and a fill card?

A GOBO HEAD OR A KNUCKLE

Because it's translucent, rip nylon could be used to do what to light?

DIFFUSE

What are the 3 ways (not tools) we talked about modifying a light source?

TRANSMISSION, REFLECTION, ABSORPTION

To be sure your background will be black in your final image, which 2 light meter readings would you need to compare?

EXPOSURE TO BACKGROUND

A light source that has a small effective diameter would create a moderately soft shadow edge. True or False?

FALSE

What are the 5 elements of lighting design?

1. BRIGHTNESS 2. CONTRAST 3. FOCUS 4. DETAIL 5. COLOR

Untrained viewers know what bad light is even if they can't verbalize it. True or False?

TRUE

What is this? (Referring to a gobo head)

GOBO HEAD

What are you doing when you compare the highlight side reading to the shadow side reading?

EXPRESSING THE LIGHTING RATIO

The size of the main light source is relative to what?

THE SIZE OF THE SUBJECT AND THE DISTANCE FROM THE LIGHT SOURCE TO THE SUBJECT

For a small light source the shadow edges are…?

SHARPLY DEFINED

What is the fringe region of partial shadow, also known as the shadow edge?

THE PENUMBRA

What controls the penumbra?

THE SIZE OF THE SOURCE

Beam spread should not be confused with the size of the light within the lighting envelope. True or False?

TRUE

The degree of contrast is ___ ____ to the effective size of the light source.

INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL A RELATIONSHIP IN WHICH ONE VARIABLE GOES UP AS THE OTHER VARIABLE GOES DOWN.

What does a diffuse highlight reveal?

TRUE TONALITY