How to choose a live room?

The optimal live stream room would be an independent and quiet space, with enough area. It can be a studio, an office, a room at home or a partition in a store.

How should my live streaming background look like?

The best background for a live room is light and solid-colored, simple, and bright-based, without being too fancy. Of course, a green screen can also be chosen, so you can select any virtual background based on your needs.

(However, it is not recommended to choose the green screen to use regularly. Relatively speaking, the live room scene built with the green screen is not coordinated enough and may have a little abrupt feeling, and the effect is not as good as that directly built.)

On the other hand, the Tik-Tok live room is mostly gray-color-based, which is simple, and gray is a neutral color, which can be matched with any color. In addition, the color gray is the most suitable background color for the camera, which will not be overly-exposed, and the visual comfort is conducive to highlighting the color of clothing, makeup, or products.

How should I place the fill light that I've bought to enhance the overall lighting performance?

In addition to proper decoration and reasonable layout, the most important thing for a good live broadcast room is "lighting".

Good lighting layout has three uses:

First, effectively enhance the overall image of the anchor;

Second, show the highlights of the brand and product;

Third, change the atmosphere of the live broadcast.

Room light:

This is the ceiling light of the live broadcast room, which can also be an LED lamp, mainly responsible for the room lighting; the function of the environment lamp is to make the whole live broadcast room bright.

Main Light Source:

The main light source refers to the main light that reflects the appearance of the main host and products, which plays the role of the main lighting. It can make the face of the main host and the product evenly illuminated and whiten the skin simultaneously, making the face of the host and the product look mild. Using a spherical lamp as the main light source is recommended because the light emitted by the spherical lamp is soft enough, preferably with a color rendering index of more than 96%.

Fill light:

Generally, the side is illuminated at 45 degrees and cannot be directly illuminated from the front or back. This is mainly to make the picture softer. The skin of the anchor looks glossy and delicate. Now many live rooms use unique circular fill lights for anchors, which can both fill and soften the light.

The most commonly used lights in the live room include the main light, auxiliary light, contour light, top light and background light.

Main light:

It is the leading light source, which determines the main tone of the picture. In lighting, adding auxiliary, background, and outline light only makes sense after determining the main light. The live broadcast can make the host's face evenly lit, which is the first step in lighting beauty. Placement suggestion: Place it in front of the host, forming an angle of 0-15 degrees with the lens axis on the video camera. The light from this direction is sufficient and uniform, making the host's face soft and skin whitening. However, the disadvantage of the main light is that there will be no shadows when it is illuminated from the front, and there will be a lack of layering.

Auxiliary light:

To improve the level and tone of the shadow surface, auxiliary light should be added when lighting. In the live broadcast, the overall stereo feeling can be increased by adjusting the auxiliary light, which can highlight the outline of the side.

Placement suggestion: The auxiliary light at a 90-degree angle on the left and right sides of the host and the auxiliary light at a 45-degree angle on the left front can produce shadows on the facial contour to create a three-dimensional texture. The auxiliary light at a 45-degree angle from the right back can light up the contour on the rear side, making a strong contrast with the front light, which is beneficial to create the overall host shape. However, attention should be paid to adjusting the light ratio to avoid over-exposure of the face or being too dark in some parts.

Backlight:

Backlight, also known as a rim light, is usually placed behind the anchor to outline the anchor's silhouette and highlight the subject.

Placement suggestion: Set it in the position behind the anchor, and the light from behind can make the anchor's outline clear and separate the anchor from the live room background, highlighting the main body. As a backlight, be sure to pay attention to the brightness adjustment of the light. If the light is too bright, it will directly cause the effect of Buddha's light shining in the back of the anchor, making the main part of the picture too dark. At the same time, the camera will cause glare; improper use can easily cause adverse effects.

Top light:

Top light is a light source secondary to the main light, shining from the top position to add lighting to the background and ground so that the shadows of the host's cheekbones, chin, nose, etc., can be lengthened visually to lengthen the facial contour to achieve the effect of a thin face. This is also one of the commonly used lights for anchors.

Placement suggestion: The light coming down from above the host can produce a strong sense of projection and achieve the effect of a thin face. Top light has many advantages, but the disadvantage is that it can quickly form shadows under the eyes and nose.

Background light:

Its primary function is to set off the main body or render the atmosphere to make the brightness of the live broadcast room as uniform and harmonious as possible.

Placement suggestion: However, the background light is a uniform lighting effect, so the lighting should be arranged in a low light and multi-source way.