Lighting is one of the most important aspects when it comes to filming your
videos, whilst most people look around for a better camera to improve image
quality if you don't use lighting your videos just are not going to pop at all!
So in this video I'm going to show you how to use some very basic three-point
lighting to make your videos pop.
Hey there I'm Mark Brown from EditorsKeys
and in this video I'm gonna show you how to use a very cheap, budget-friendly
three-point lighting kit to improve your videos and I'm gonna show you exactly
what each light does and how it looks with each light on and off.
So the three-point lighting setup is used everywhere in film and TV and you'll see
a lot of youtubers using it as well.
we actually used to use a neewer ring light
and now we have a double softbox setup and if you want to check out a link to
those we're gonna put those in the description so you can check those
products out but let's jump into it so our setup is actually very very basic we
just use two of these new airsoft boxes they're about two feet in height and
what I like about these is if you spin it around you actually get full control
over the brightness of the light and you can change the color temperature of the
light as well these very little power and it makes them very efficient in a
small studio setup like ours okay now if we move to the set these are our back
lights which are also called practical lights and what we use is a few
different things we've got this build as light and this just comes from a DIY
store we have this on the floor on the ceiling and this creates a nice bit of
separation from the subject to the wall we use these very cheap practical fairy
lights which you can get from Amazon or Ebay for a couple of pounds we actually
put a few of those inside this glass head here as well which is wearing
perfect studio series headphones and then we have some more practical
lighting on the Left sorry right hand side of this set and these are just some
very cheap LED warm bulbs they give a nice pop to the set and they also create
a bit of separation and then finally we've got the dream big neon sign neon
sign and I really love this I just think adds we all nice touch to
the set to the wall but it also adds a real nice bit of separation from myself
and the camera and the lights and I think that's really cool I really like
that light okay so this is what it's like in the studio
with all the lights off so the first like we're gonna turn on is the key
light now this is the light you should use all the time if you only have one
light this is the light you want to use and what you need to do is you need to
set this up at a 45 degree angle and you'll see it already creates some
shadows on the camera left side of me and it just gives a bit of depth to the
shot so you'll always want this fairly close to your subject and that is the
key light so okay so that's just with the key light as you can tell it's
probably a little bit too dramatic so what you need next is the fill light so
let's switch that on and you can already see that reduces the amount of shadow on
this side of my face and you'll want to do that and just adjust it fine-tune it
to your liking you know you don't want to completely blow out and get rid of
all the shadows you want the fill light to be slightly dimmer than your key
light because you still want a slight bit of shadows you wouldn't you want
that depth in the subject and that's exactly what the fill light will do okay
so now we've got the key light we've got the fill light and now let's turn on the
background lights okay so the background lights are now on and
you should already instantly see a nice bit of separation between me and the
background wall or the background set and as mentioned we use the neon light
and that gives off a bit of a kind of green glowing light and then we use the
corner lights which have a nice red tone to them and I just think that color
combination just really helps you stand out from the background especially when
you're wearing a dark top like this against a gray wall otherwise you would
just blend straight in so that is a very basic three point lighting setup so if
you're not quite ready for a three point setup or you're a bit out of budget the
one light I would maybe recommend you starting with especially if you're
vlogging is a ring light like this this is what we actually used in many of our
early videos and essentially what a ring light does it has light all the way
around you would pop your camera through here and this will fairly evenly light
your face and one of the benefits of a ring light is you actually get a nice
ring kind of light effect in your eyes so what we'll do is we'll put this next
to the camera now put the camera through it and I'll show you how this would work
and we'll turn off the two lights that we're using at the moment
okay so we've still got the background lights on now let's switch on the ring
light and as you can see it's quite a powerful light it is quite
when you're standing in front of it but what I like about it it's great if
you're on a budget it will light up your subject pretty perfectly well and it's
great if you're doing pieces to camera like this if you're just talking
directly into the camera and you're not trying to light up an entire set this is
maybe a light to start with and it's good to add a little glint in your eye
too so there we go I hope that video has just helped you understand a little bit
more about some basic lighting techniques and it just goes to show you
with a little bit of budget you can really make your videos pop so if you've
got a channel and you're going to improve your videos now leave a comment
below and I'll check out your channel thanks for watching and make sure you
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we do videos all about that kind of stuff so thanks for watching and I'll
see you in the next video.