Grammar of the Shot, 4th Edition

Chapter FourLighting Your Shots – Not Just What You See, but How You See It

 

•Light as Energy

•Color Temperature

•Color Balance of Your Camera

•Natural and Artificial Lighting

•Quantity of Light: Sensitivity and Exposure

•Quality of Light: Hard versus Soft

•Contrast

•Color

•Basic Character Lighting: The Three-Point Lighting Method

•Motivated Lighting: Angle of Incidence

•Set and Location Lighting

•Controlling Light: Basic Tools and Techniques

Unless you are using specialty cameras such as night vision, thermal, or infrared, you will need to illuminate your subjects, sets, and locations. Light allows us and our cameras to “see” and it will allow you, the filmmaker, to show your story to the audience – not merely with basic exposure, but also ...