PAINTING WITH LIGHT

Find art work from Rembrandt and Renoir, and study the use of light that the artists create in their paintings

for example find:
Renoir- Sleeping Girl with Cat

From the film screen in class Visions of Light, try to watch a movie mention in the movie an look at the cinematography

 

 

Federico Fellini once said as a statement:

"FILMS ARE LIGHT"

This statement brings to the essence of the cinematographerπs art function.

One of the most important abilities of a cinematographer and DP is to see light and to remember it.

The "light Memory" for the cinematographer is similar to the musical memory necessary for a musician.

Light is the most changing element in our daily life.

We move among solid objects and among people who do not change drastically during a day or a week.

Visually the appearance of our environment and of people around us may change from one hour to the next due to the time of the day, the weather, or the particular source of light.

The best cinematographers are very aware of these changes and store their memory the impact different types of lights have on our emotions and our subconscious.

The main idea here is to evoke producing an emotional tone, or at least an aesthetic quality in the light. Understanding for aesthetic as the sensitivity to appreciate the beauty of the frame, as well as the principles behind the idea of creating that particular frame.

The concern is that the ideas you want to convey (the Mood or Feeling of the picture), and the methods of lighting you will use; it will evaluate the landscape of aesthetics of the picture.

The lighting set up, a decision you should make for your projects, will provide the adequate perception to an audience.

The concept is that all experience is aesthetic experience, and is based on the perspective that all experience is perception.

The only criterion is that the picture will produce a vivid experience in your audience.

We cannot attempt to separate the effect of the light from the experience of your picture.

I take the position that Video does not exist independently of the experience of art; therefore all questions of a definition of Video as an art are secondary to an understanding of the aesthetic experience that light will produce.

Renoir - Swing

"Aesthetics" means the study of perception.

Aesthetics, then, is the study of all activity from the perspective that we are orienting ourselves to have certain perceptions (experiences).

The Lighting director should have a good understanding of what combination of form and color will encourage a certain kind of experience in an audience.

With each different position of the Light we achieved a combination of form and color, therefore a different perception on the aesthetic experience of each frame, independent of the object itself.

The physical position and intensity of the lights in your Video will have certain effects on the audience. Moreover, THE VIDEOGRAPHER must know what kind of LIGHT should produce a certain feeling in the audience.

Whether the light is appealing or not is not the question.

The position of the Light will generate an aesthetic response.

The perception of the audience will be always present, waiting for your in-put; whether they like it or not, it will depend on your approach to the picture.

The aesthetic experience has one universal characteristic: among all people, at any time, the aesthetic experience involves concentration on some aspect of the environment.

The Atmospheric Lighting Techniques for your pictures will generate the aesthetic experience for your audience.