Notes about lighting

A. I have tried using birds eye, worms eye, close-ups, and different lighting. The most effective for my project has been close ups. I have found that I really like zooming in on things and focusing on the little details as people talk about the ways in which they express themselves. Those details make it more clear, the details which we use as expression every day. 

B. As I mentioned above I like zooming in and zooming out in different frames and seeing what kind of emotion and expression I can find in the little details as people talk about love and what it means to them. 

C. I find that straight on is the most effective, though perhaps not the most interesting. I want it to be straight on because little acts of love happen every day without us even knowing it. It is straightforward and I want people to notice things in a different way, but from familiar angles. 

D. I have tried placing a light directly on people, and having the light shine from behind, but I think I am going to work mostly on gray days, where the light behind the clouds makes things glow. It makes things beautiful in bleak circumstances which is what I want people to realize. Lighting is an important role to my video because it changes the way things are seen and emphasized.