From the course: Learning Cinematography: 3 Hands On Techniques
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Lighting concepts
From the course: Learning Cinematography: 3 Hands On Techniques
Lighting concepts
- Lighting is the place where the cinematographer has the greatest autonomy and impact in the making of a movie. Lighting sets the mood of the film, it creates the context in which the entire film happens. It has an impact on acting, production design, costuming, editing, makeup, and effects. So let's look at the ways a cinematographer uses tools of lighting. Now the cinematographer isn't the director, so we don't get to set the specifics of the story that we've come here to tell. The cinematographer isn't a gaffer or the key grip, so when we're making a movie, we may not actually ever touch any of these things, but the first skill of the cinematographer is to be a collaborator. Now the cinematographer has to understand the tools so that we effectively deploy these units in lighting a set. Now the first thing to talk about is the way the light is generated. We have a tungsten light here, we have an LED light there, and we have HMI light there on the end. Now the tungsten light was the…
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