Chapter 4. Lighting
Unless you plan to shoot with the lens cap on, you’ll have to come to grips with lighting in your videos. Put simply, you want to have enough light to see what’s being filmed, but not so much that it blows out the camcorder’s sensors with pure white. You also don’t want scenes that are so dark you can’t see what’s going on.
When a Hollywood film crew shoots a movie, the lighting you see is enhanced (or outright artificial—even the most natural-looking sunlight coming through a window is likely a big spotlight on the other side of the wall). You don’t need to go to those extremes, of course. Most often your lighting rigs will entail the sun, some lamps, and maybe a spotlight or two.
What’s important is that you know how basic ...
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