In class this week we looked at lighting, specifically how film makers manipulate light to evoke mood within their films. Robin stated that the lighting comes from two primary sources, the key light and the fill light. The key light is the main source for lighting, it casts the strongest shadows and often spawns from the setting in which the film is shot, for example, when I filmed outside for ‘the retirement’ the key light was the sun, in the film we did below the key light was the huge lamp (its name escapes me now) that shone from the window mimicking natural sunlight. The fill light is less intense and quite literally ‘fills in’ softening the shadows. In the film below we had a smaller Lido Light that shone from the opposite side, so the two actors faces were not in complete shadow. If I was to shoot outside, a black board would be handy in decreasing the suns presence on the image, making it less ‘spotty’ and creating more of a diffused light source.