Basic workshop – 5 days
This seminar gives an overview of the basic principles of creating images with various light sources. The main topic will be how to create shadows, reflections, refractions and separate colors. These techniques will be used, in theory and practice, to tell stories with light and shadow .
Languages: English and German
“The language of light”
Moving light
- Choice of light
possibilities and limitations of different lights - Guidance of light
second/third dimension, inner/outer space,rhythm of the movement, light as camera - Light systems
dramatic possibilities of the moving light
The shadow
- Shadow is space
perspectives of the cut - Shadow objects and puppets
material, design, mechanics, 3-d objects - Open screen
material, size, fixing, use,
passages from picture to picture - Shaping of a picture
style, reduction, background - Tools and aids
glas, mirrors, opaque/transparent structures
The refraction
- Backgrounds
curvature and grinding - Figures
transparent layers with colours - Water
moving refractions
The polarisation
- Preconditions of the decomposition of light
lightsource, statics, contrast, possibilities and limitations - Lightning means
polarising materials - Dark and bright space
making of a picture
The reflexion
- Mirrors and other materials
flexibility and rigidity - Designing pictures
getting closer to the shape - Rhythm and figure
single images and choreography
Helena Nilsson, Stockholm, Sweden:
I am very, very pleased with my workshop week in Bamberg led by Norbert Götz. I was guided, on a highly professional manner, into a whole new world of light, shadows and great opportunities. I got the chance to meet a wide variety of new materials and techniques and Norbert encouraged creativity and ideas from the group. The great skill and vast experience Norbert has accumulated over years of work was clearly apparent and contributed to great confidence in him. I returned home after this week filled with new experience, great tools, and a strong desire to go on and learn even more.
