Lighting Research and Testing

This is the first shoot we did. This is the conference room where we will be shooting our focus group. We decided that we would take a range of photos and change slight things that would affect the lighting in the room such as opening and closing the blinds and turning the lights on and off so that we could determine the optimum lighting for the footage. We took 8 photos in the end and this is the results we got.

Blinds open and lights off




This is the result of having the blinds open and having the lights above turned off. Having lighting like this proved to be very poor because the window is small therefore it casts a shadow across the room making some of the room very dark in contrast with the light. We therefore decided that having the lighting like this would be unsuitable for filming our focus group.

Blinds shut and lights off






This is the result of having the blinds shut and the lights off, this proved to be worse, even though it got rid of the contrast between light and dark, it did mean that the whole of the room was dark and this meant that it would be difficult to see peoples faces in the focus group. Therefore we will not be using this lighting arrangement when filming our focus group.

Blinds open and lights on





This is the result of having the blinds open and the lights on. This was a massive improvement to the previous two tests, but the problem is that you do get quite a lot of natural light coming in from the window. This created a glare on the table which would interfere with the camera, also there is still a contrast between the light and dark created by this natural light. Therefore we decided that we would not be using this lighting arrangement when filming our focus group as the glare on the table would affect the overall look of the shot. 

Blinds shut and lights on





This is the result of having the blinds closed but the lights on. As you can see this is a massive improvement compared to the previous tests, this is because there is a consistency in light across the whole camera shot therefore there are no shadows which means that all of the focus group will be well lit making a better shoot. Therefore, we will be using this lighting arrangement when filming our focus group as it gives the most professional look.