Now there is no one way to light a scene, but there are standard setups that most people follow. And if they break the rules, you have to understand the rules first. So in order to light a scene like this, where you have your subject right in front of the camera, and you you want to have him lit to where it's aesthetically pleasing, and you don't really deal with weird shadows, make sure that the lights are not pointed coming from underneath. That's, that's a start. Unless of course you're going for like a horror vibe or something. But just for our standard video like this, you won't really need no lights coming from underneath.

So make sure the lights are coming from overhead. That's the first thing. Okay, so when I mean bring the lights overhead, I don't mean too high up because when you do bring it directly above the subject is going to end up looking like you're in some type of interrogation scene or something of that sort. Another thing is to if you want to separate the subject from the background then you can use a backlight to Do that. And if you do use a blacklight make sure that it doesn't. It's not visible in the scene so keep it just out of frame.

And of course, you get the best results when the when the light of course is in frame. But that will mess with the scene because you don't want no flashing light right behind the character one time I did this and it ruined the whole shot and it was something that was really difficult to work around. So just make sure that the light source is just out of frame because it can be pretty distracting if it is in frame and you never see the backlight and frame and if you can't bring it into the frame, then you're better off not using it at all. Now fill lights can be placed anywhere. Now this type of light you can be the most creative with and you can use this to patch up different areas, you know issues you might have lighting, whatever it is you're trying to light.

So that's pretty much it for the standard light setup. You generally have to lights in the front, one light in the back. One is the key light. The next one is the fair light. And then the last one is a hair light. And then you keep all of these lights out of frame.

Of course, the two lights have set in behind the camera they're going to be out of frame anyway, but the backlight is the one you always have to worry about. So now that we're done with this, let's move on to the next lesson.