From the course: Learning Cinematography: 2 Working on Set

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Camera and lighting setups

Camera and lighting setups

From the course: Learning Cinematography: 2 Working on Set

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Camera and lighting setups

- Okay, so we're going to talk about the tools that we're going to be using for our shoot. We've got Alex here with our camera, it's a Canon C300 Mark II. So what's the widest iris of the slowest lens that we have? - So what we have here is the 18mm and that shoots about a three five. - Yeah, see, nah, that's not going to work. That sets way too high a light level for what we want to do here and it also means that we've got way more deep focus than we want. We want more shadow depth in the field. So what's the next thing? - So the next best thing would probably be the 21mm and that's a two eight. - Two eight, okay, well that helps us. Okay, so maybe we'll take it wider and down to a two eight. So that really holds the light level down? - Yes. - Okay, great. So JD, we've got the unit over here so I need that scrape across the wall. So how are we set for that? - What we're going to do is we're going to have the 1.AK over here, we're going to shoot it behind the window and then bounce it…

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