Back Light: Videography Terms

Video Transcript

"Now the next segment that we’re on is we’re talking about the backlight, now we’ve just discussed the key light which is the main one that’s coming from this direction and we’ve just talked about the fill light which is the secondary one coming from this direction. Now we have another light which is the backlight, now the backlight is actually the light that’s on the actual background so if you look over here it’s the one that’s lighting the background if that wasn’t there that would actually all be dark. Now a lot of times is that it livens up your scene you could put like shapes on it, if you look really close you can see kind of like a slash of light coming across that it just breaks up the minutiae of it, you can also you know colorize it up and so forth. So that backlight it actually solely lights that back actual wall and sometimes other lights can substitute for that as well. Now my name is Antar with Blue Phoenix Media you can find us on the web at www.bluepmedia.com thanks for watching."