LO4: How meaning was created through the use of lighting and camera settings

The short documentary which I created starts dramatically at the start in order to show the devastating impact that the collapse of Rana Plaza had on Bangladesh. I managed to create this through the way that I used sound within my short film. After the title though, the film becomes happier as it focuses on the things that we can do to change the fashion community in a positive way. I symbolised this through my use of music along with the camera and lighting settings that I chose. 

Within my documentary, I used a three point lighting system in order to make sure that my interview scenes were well lit, making the audience focus on the person who is speaking, the manager of Thrifty Store, Bally Johal. The way that my shots were well lit meant that it created a profesional look to my film. Due to the way that my shots were clear from a combination of the lighting techniques and camera settings that I used, meant that the audience can focus on the main person who is being interviewed. By creating a more personal connection with the  interviewee, it means that my audience are more likely to engage and therefore listen to and take into account what Johal was saying. I believe that the profesional look to this interview also did this as it meant that the audience believed that what Bally Johal was saying was something serious that needed thinking about.

I used a tripod to keep my camera still during the interview, however I did use the zoom tool on the camera to get a variety of medium, medium close up and close up shots during the interview. This gave me a variety of different shots when I was editing to keep my short documentary engaging. By keeping the camera in one place for the interview, it meant that the lighting stayed the same throughout the clips creating consistency throughout the interview within my short film. I used natural lighting with the right camera setting when filming the shots of the store itself as I needed movement within these clips and therefore couldn't use the static lighting which I had set up.

I believe that the lighting techniques and camera settings which I used within my short film were successful as they matched what I wanted to portray through my documentary which was professionalism. This is because I wanted my audience to engage with what Johal was saying as the information within my short film was important and I believed that the visuals needed to be in place to back this up.