Colour and Light

Colour Theory Isaac Newton 1642-1726, Newton did experiments where he refracted light into a prism to understand the rainbow, and developed the colour wheel in 1666. The eye perceives colour as reflected light, transmitted light. Light hits an object and it absorbs part of the spectrum. Electromagnetic spectrum has different wavelengths each producing a  different colour in your optic vision.
                
Colour Wheel
Adjacent colours appear next to each other on the colour wheel.
Complementary colours are separated by another colour.
Clashing colours appear directly opposite.
Hue = Pure Colour
Tint = Hue + White
Tone = Hue + Grey
Shade = Hue + Black
hue describes the distinct characteristic of colour that distingushes red from yellow ad blue.
Saturation is the purity of colour-how much of that colour where 100 represents solid colour and value of 5 about 5% tint of that colour.
Value = Brightness, it can refer to the luminance, in terms of pigment the addition of black, lower the brightness closer to black it appears.
Tints/Tones/Shades = If white is added to a colour, the lighter the version is a tint. If the colour is made darker by adding black, the result is called a shade. And if grey is added, each graduation gives you a different tone.
On a computer red, blue and green are in a pixel to determine a colour o the scale of 0-255, 0 being white and 255 being black.




We also did a practice lighting exercise where we had to set up a 3 point lighting system and make it look like day light, the theme was interview so one person would be in front of the camera and be answering questions from someone of camera our task was to eliminate all shadows within the shot to give the effect of daylight, as a group we played around with many different lighting angles as well as changing the colour of the lights in order to give the effect we wanted.
             Although we had done a number of shots we could'deem to remove all the shadows and our takes looked rather faded and plain, then with help from Deborah she said it was best to do each light one at a time in order to be able to see what areas the individual light was effecting, with her help we were able to do a take and give the impression of daylight, rather than being in a closed studio.

3 point lighting system:

Pictures From Shoot Day.

One Shot Film, Shoot Day.

We had chosen our location for the one shot film and had all our ideas and plans wrote down, we met up at twelve o'clock on the Tuesday but found that due to the rain the previous day we couldn’t complete our filming, so we left it that day and hoped that by tomorrow that the path would of dried up. that night i decided to write up a new risk assessment in case that the path had not dried up, we had said that if this was the case we would film inside in one of the studios in the Waverley building. Luckily when we returned on Wednesday the path had dried up and we were able to shoot outside like we had originally planned, we set up shot inside the arboretum and straight away discovered that it was going to be a lot harder than originally anticipated, we found that with our original idea of shooting the one shot film from over becky’s shoulder that when she was drawing her head blocked most of the shot so our idea of her drawing out her life, the message we wished to portray didn’t work how we had hoped, after doing a number of different shot angles and zoom taking the best part of an hour we found a suitable shot that would allow us to portray the message we wanted, there was only one more proble that we had one attempt at our film and there wouldn’t be time for another take. Thankfully we set up and began filming, Bree and Sam stood watch to make sure no one walked into the shot, while Harry was on camera Becky starred and i was Director, we successfully shot our film packed up, and showed it the next day to the other groups and got some positive feedback. Here are some photos from the shoot. Here is our finished film....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvvZjMXE5Zs