Lighting task

When creating Wallace and Gromit animations they use artificial lighting called red head to light up the sets. Black screens are also used which allows the light to reflect off creating the shadows in that specific scene. The term red head camera means that there is a red light attached to the top of the camera, when the camera moves across the scene it continues with the same lighting otherwise the scene will be darker in some places and would make the animation look very unprofessional and the lighting wouldn't be continuous throughout the animation and it would also take away the affect.


Ardman use a variety of effect lighting within there scenes, such as a street lamp, they light these scenes with L.E.D's which stands for light emitting diode's, or they use tiny bulbs linked to a transformer. in some scene they use fibre optics or small torch bulbs. These techniques that ardman use are very effective and are very good at lighting small individual places in an animation for example a house or  car head lamp.

When creating our advert animation we used a interfit tungsten 3200 power lamp. 
The reason we chose to use this light was it was an easy and light object to move, the head of the light can be adjusted allowing us to be able to tilt and direct the light in the correct position allowing us to be able to light our set to exactly how we wanted it, the light is very bright meaning it will easily light up our whole set and there would be no need for any other lighting. 
Some possible issues that could arise during a lighting set up could be the light over heating, this can be very dangerous as if someone was to touch the light they could burn themselves. We also need to be careful with leads and cables in case anyone was to trip over and cause any injuries.