LIGHTING

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LIGHTING

• Let there be Light

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AESTHETICS

• Realist
• Normal lighting-Sitcoms.
• Modernist
• Slightly abstract - film noir
• Post Modernist
• Draws attention to the lighting effects
• Rock Concerts
• Batman Forever

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COLOR OF LIGHT

• Degrees Kelvin
• White balance
• Video-electronically within camera
• Film-stock/filters must match light
• Color plates 3-4, following p. 252
• Daylight - 5400 K
• Tungsten - 3200 K
• Chart p. 184

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INSTRUMENTS I

• Spotlights
• Hard edge
• Focus control
• Fresnel, Ellipsoidal
• Floodlights
• Soft edge
• Little focus control
• Scoops, Broads, Softlights

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INSTRUMENTS I I

• Portable
• Open faced
• Lensed
• Variable control
• Mounting Devices
• Stands
• Overhead
• Grid, Batten
• C-clamps, safety chains

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SHAPING DEVICES

• Filters
• Scrims-diffusers
• Barndoors
• Flags
• Cookies
• Gels

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CONTROL

• Patch Bay
• Control Console-dimmer board
• Computer control
• Ohms Law p. 198
• W V x A, A W/V
• Inverse square law p. 199
• L 1/D2

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MEASUREMENT

• Incident
• Amount of light falling on subject
• Reflected
• Amount of light bounced from subject
• Ratios
• Key-to-fill
• Key-to-back
• Contrast Darkest vs. brightest

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LIGHT PLOTS

• Scale accuracy are important
• 3-point
• Key, fill, back
• 4-point
• Key, fill, back, kicker, background
• Problems
• Shadows, Moving subjects
• Single vs. multiple cameras
• Low vs. high key

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LIGHTING METHODS

• Single camera
• Specific shots by shot
• Multiple camera
• All shots in scene
• Digital cameras
• Care for greater detail