Lighting

Introduction

Lighting: Learning Quests:

Lighting Options:

• Option #1: Select one of the following options to learn more about lighting:
  • Watch Visions of Light, a documentary created from interviews with cinematographers. Available in the movie drawer in the TV Studio.
  • Watch a short video about lighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXcc79AmkyU
  • Read a chapter (or more than one chapter) of one of our books with a chapter on lighting.
  • Examine a number of resources about composition:
  • http://wanderingdp.com/cinematography/commercial-cinematography-series-journey-begins/
    • Director of Photography Geoff Boyle suggests that today's cameras don't require complex lighting setups: http://nofilmschool.com/2016/11/watch-dp-geoff-boyle-explains-how-you-can-simplify-your-lighting
    • Lighting without electricity: http://nofilmschool.com/2016/11/how-light-scene-without-any-electricity Please note: the HS TV Studio doesn't own any battery-powered lights (yet. Who wants to fundraise?!?). Also, the school district does NOT want you to light with fire. Ever. So ignore that part of this video.
    • Using only natural light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUXtCFpybvQ
• Option #2: Select one of the following to apply what you know about lighting to another's work
• Watch a film and dissect a single scene by storyboarding that scene. You could film and edit an approximation of that scene.
  • For each item you produce, please follow the production procedure: plan the production with shot lists or storyboards, film the production, edit the production, reflect on the process, screen, reflect on the product.

Option #3: Select one of the following to apply what you know about lighting to your own work

• Find a copyright-friendly, pre-written screenplay. Plan, film, and edit a production of this screenplay.
  • For each item you produce, please follow the production procedure: plan the production with shot lists or storyboards, film the production, edit the production, reflect on the process, screen, reflect on the product.

Lighting Resources:

http://wanderingdp.com/cinematography/commercial-cinematography-series-journey-begins/

Director of Photography Geoff Boyle suggests that today's cameras don't require complex lighting setups: http://nofilmschool.com/2016/11/watch-dp-geoff-boyle-explains-how-you-can-simplify-your-lighting

Lighting without electricity:

http://nofilmschool.com/2016/11/how-light-scene-without-any-electricity Please note: the HS TV Studio doesn't own any battery-powered lights (yet. Who wants to fundraise?!?). Also, the school district does NOT want you to light with fire. Ever. So ignore that part of this video.

Using only natural light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUXtCFpybvQ