Location Lighting
Obviously, the lighting used on location depends not only on the production but also on the location. Outside broadcasts from an opera house or a theatre will entail more heavy lighting and there will be a means of rigging the extra lights, as in a studio. Filming on location necessitates lights being moved and changed constantly. Filming entails a different way of working in that each scene is broken up into several sequences; these are filmed separately and then put together. This means that the lighting is crucial as all the sequences have to match. It may be that for filming out of doors minimal lighting will be used, but for each shot the lighting director has to measure the amount of light available with a light meter, ...
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