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Motion Picture and Video Lighting: for cinematographers, gaffers and lighting technicians

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Lighting is at the heart of filmmaking. The image, the mood, and the visual impact of a film are, to a great extent, determined by the skill and sensitivity of the director of photography in using lighting. Motion Picture and Video Lighting explores technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of lighting for film and video. It covers not only how to light, but also why.This revised edition of Motion Picture and Video Lighting is the indispensable guide to film and video lighting. Written by an experienced professional, this comprehensive book explores light and color theory, equipment, and techniques to make every scene look its best, and is heavily illustrated throughout.Three new chapters discuss best practices of using light to benefit your film, and an extensive appendix includes discussion on additional tips and tricks. In addition, a robust companion website includes up-to-date video tutorials and other resources for students and professionals alike.Three new chapters:Scene LightingLighting as StorytellingControlling LightTopics include:Lighting sourcesThe lighting processLighting basicsLED, tungsten, Kino-Flo, HMI, and plasma lightsMethods of controlling lightPlanning your lightingThe basic methods: a lighting playbookVisual storytelling with lightUnderstanding and controlling colorTerminologyElectricity and distributionGripologySet operationsThe team: DP, gaffer, grips, lighting techniciansTechnical issuesLighting for greenscreen/bluescreenTypical equipment orders for large and small jobsLighting for high speed and macro photographyLighting plans for small, medium, and large films Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 3rd edition (August 16, 2018)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 356 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1138618012


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 15


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.35 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 0.75 x 10.75 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #1,828,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #195 in Photography Lighting (Books) #312 in Cinematography (Books) #1,470 in Photography Reference (Books)


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    • Very technical.
I found a lot of useful information in this book, but really it was written for people who want to run lights for movie production companies. There was lots of information that I will never use, such as lists of things to put into the lighting truck. I'm just a one-guy animation studio and I don't have any kind of truck, so I skipped over a lot of the book. However, the information I did find useful in the book, made it worth buying. If you're a one-person studio, I'd suggest you go online and study "Three-Point Lighting." That's a really good place to start and it might be all the information you need. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2021 by DA
    • Essentially the same book as his book on Cinematography in a different cover.
The title says it all.
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2021 by Serious Soul
    • Scratching the Surface
Note: This is a review of the third edition. For some reason, Amazon has chosen to combine reviews of several editions. Photography means drawing with light. Without light, movies and video are just radio. After a brief history of movie lighting, Brown presents an exhaustive and exhausting listing of the types of lights available to movie makers. The author then offers principles for lighting, followed by a discussion of the ancillary tools of controlling light, like scrims and snoots. The chapter on developing the lighting plan ranges from the help that the script may provide, to devices that can be used to create the look of a campfire. The chapter on using light to tell a story consists mainly of screen grabs from movies with great lighting without specific comments. The chapter on color describes basics like the color wheel and the use of tools to measure and effect color temperature. After a discussion of exposure theory, there are chapters on electrical distribution and the role of grips (the folks who move around lighting equipment, except for electrical gear). The book ends with a description of who does what to create the lighting on the set, and then a catchall on special lighting situations. Everything in the book deals with big time movie and TV making. The lone wolf, who may be happy with just a few small LED panels, will have to work hard to figure out how this will apply to him or her. Although there is a great deal of information here, it is not well organized or explained in depth. For example the list of lighting devices is described by type and size of light source. Presumably this wide variety exists to meet the needs of a particular lighting situation (or perhaps, even a fiscal consideration). If the principles of lighting had been discussed first then it might have been easier to explain how a particular light could be used. A second problem is the lack of depth. For example a number of devices for holding lights in place were discussed. It would have been useful to see how these devices might actually be installed. For the screen grabs to explain how lighting furthers the story, one would have to be familiar with the movie or at least have it explained by Brown. The great reveal shot of the suddenly illuminated Harry Lime only makes story sense when you know (spoiler alert) that he was presumed dead until this point in “The Third Man”. My copy of the book came with an erratum explaining that there were figure numbering errors. My own checking failed to show such errors. Instead, even though the book is extensively illustrated, photographs and captions were often so far from the related text that it was impossible to make a connection. Good layout would have had these illustrations on the same or adjacent pages to the relevant text, or at least, to have identified illustration numbers in the text. The title says that the book is for “cinematographers, gaffers & lighting technicians.” Other than giving them a broad familiarity with lighting, this book alone would certainly not enable them do their job. Note: The publisher provided me with a review copy of this book at no charge. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2018 by Conrad J. Obregon

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