Lighting is one of the key concepts that give your footage a professional look and prevents it from looking amateur. Here are few elements, rules and types of lighting essential for you to know:

1. Every light has a colour temperature. Anything above 5000 Kelvin has a cool colour temperature and the light is bluish. Below, 5000 Kelvin, the light is warm and orange-ish.
2. You can either have an open-faced lighting fixture or a Fresnal fixture.
3. Few types of lights are:

• Halogen light is warm and has an orange colour temperature. It’s very bright and cheap but can get hot and dangerous.
• HMI lights have blue colour temperature. They are brighter than halogen lights and are efficient in energy. However, they are expensive.
• Fleuroscent lights have cool/warm colour temperature and cast very soft lighting but aren’t very strong.
• LED lights cast blue/warm temperature. They are bright but expensive.

1. Three pointing lighting lights up a subject using three lights; two in front and one at the back.
2. Foreground-background separation ensures depth. Light gets softer as the light source gets bigger.

You can learn few more basics about film lighting from this video:

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