UC Berkeley Main Campus
Department of Art Practice, Center for New Media, Fall 2007
In the final assignment, we will produce a short abstract movie to address french poet Stephane Mallarme's claim that that a work of art can create its own space and its own time, and the idea that an observer suspends the real experience of space and time in favor of experiencing the space and time of a represented motion.
In preparation for the final assignment, we cover basic lighting techniques: First, we create a storyboard and determine camera angles and composition. The composition will give us basic ideas about where the lights and the shadows should fall in an image. Then we position a key light to establish the basic distribution of light and darkness. We test-render to see problem areas, areas of the image that are too dark, too bright, or distracting. We use fill lights and the light linking tool to address these problems.
Review: All timely creations will be reviewed and discussed in class on Wednesday
Sample File: A basic sample file is downloadable here.
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