The Creation of the Set 

We used tools such as electric hand saw, hand saw and a drill to create the table and and kitchen.  
All this was tools was used to drill the nails in wood, cut and create support.












We started by putting the walls together.  Discussions were made. I was more involved in cutting sawing and mending a table together.

20 years of Breakfast - PLAN IDEA

 

 The characters, they wont be able to  notice the change in their surrounding, they are living in run dawn house created to be studied by scientists. 

"There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, l and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming."

Author: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Group SET-CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

The group was asked to create a wooden a kitchen set, a few of us brought into the studio useful items to be used in building. Also we contributed funds to buy materials. The process was enjoyable because we were trusted to get the work done until it was finished, so we used music to keep us in good spirits. The project took three days to complete. All the students that contributed worked effectively and happily together. owing to the absence of some students, we were a small number. Thanks to the efforts of all, the results turned out well. And filming with actors was also successful. although some complications occurred, everyone involved should be congratulated. This process was very interesting for us and we hope, in the future, to have more enjoyable practical experiences like this.

Preparation for the set. 

Production

SET PLAN AND SET UP

20 Years of Breakfast 

Art of Shaping Light
Using Flags

There a numerous things that make lighting difficult. There are many different tools. One of the most underrated and under-utilised lighting tools, the flag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AGVD482rbo&t=113s

Flags are also known as cutters. Flags are pieces of thick black cloth. It is accomplished by manipulating the position of the flag in relation of the light by using a c-stand. it is effective cinema lighting creating manful contrast within a scene.

You can block, diffuse, shape, bounce and breakup the light using these tools. This is very crucial in creating a textured, realistic or fantastic look that is visually much more interesting than just blasting the light onto your subject. 




Essential grip Items.

C-Stands and Gobo Heads


The arms have fixed gobo heads with multiple holes for gripping flags and nets.

Lighting Nets





They come as singles and doubles, like lighting instrument scrims, except the netting is thread instead of wire. 

                



Flags, or Cutters







These are used to block or cut the light. It is used to keep a light from shining into the camera lens or to shadow a wall or any other part of a scene. A flag is made with a black fabric to create or bounce and control the light in a scene. 




Diffusion:

This softens the light and makes it look a lot more natural.

The rise of modern technology has inspire more the cinematographers to learn more and made it easier in greater the art of lighting. The light meter is the original ratio tool. This helps to read the light ratio. For the key light is fairly straight forward process to measure the ratio. you take a reading of key side in a shot and then the reading of the fill side of your shot.  

Lighting Setup 

Key Light

Produces the most amount of light and shines on your subject.

Fill Light

This ‘fills’ in any shadows left by the key-light.

Back Light

Beautifies the image with a soft glow on the back of the subject’s head/shoulders. For any sort of interview or video with someone speaking in front of a camera.

Turn off all lights before starting. This way, you’ll be able to properly see what each light is doing.

Key Light:

The key light is your strongest light. There is no standard wattage that is typical for a key light. It can range from 150 watts to 10k watts depending on the situation.

The fill light is used to ‘fill’ out the shadows created by the key light. This light is less powerful than the key light.

This light is placed on the opposite side of the camera as the key light and shines on the subject at a similar angle. These shadows can be created by a person’s nose, cheek, eye- sockets and chin.

Fill Light:

The key light lights the subjects face and front side of the body. The reason we put it at an angle rather than directly in front of the subjects face is so we have a difference in lighting on one side of the face compared to the other. This is very pleasing and creates a more dramatic/interesting look.

Back Light:

The back light increases the quality of your image ten-fold. Placing the back light as close to directly behind the subject as possible by being aware of what your camera is seeing though. .This light creates a nice ‘halo’ effect around the subject’s shoulders and head. This separates him or her from the background and gives the shot more depth..