Advanced Lighting for Film Professionals

Advanced lighting techniques and philosophies for cinematography and film professionals

4.30 (94 reviews)
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Advanced Lighting for Film Professionals
321
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1 hour
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Jun 2020
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$34.99
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What you will learn

Understand the philosophy of lighting.

Understand the psychological aspects of lighting.

Understand how to control light, and change it for your purposes.

Understand use cases and how to light to address specific challenges.

Why take this course?

This course is designed to teach you advanced lighting techniques and philosophies for cinematography and film professionals. Our goal is to move beyond the basics of lighting, and look at practical examples of lighting methods you can apply to real world scenarios to solve more difficult lighting challenges. Lighting for film is a balancing act, between the visual aesthetic you want to achieve, and the practical limitations of placing light in space. We will assume that you are familiar and proficient with the fundamentals of light and photography, understanding how exposure, aperture, and camera sensitivity work, how to measure light, the definitions of terms such as key and fill, and that you are looking to build on your base of knowledge for more advanced lighting techniques. We will not cover brands and types of equipment, as these lessons will be valuable regardless of what grade of equipment you have access to. When lighting a film, you will almost never have exactly the tools you wish you had, and these lessons will teach you how to achieve your visual goals regardless of your practical limitations.


This light tells us very little about the subject and what they are feeling. Lighting them is our opportunity to bring the subject’s inner workings outward, and to tell the audience what is happening below the surface, using only light.


When approaching a scene with a director, long before you get to set, it is important to ask them; what is the scene about? What is the director hoping to achieve in the story by including this scene. Usually, you can have them boil it down to a word; Apology, redemption, betrayal, etc. Lighting in narrative work is about telling the story with pictures, and we have to understand what fundamentally happens in the scene before we can place any light in the space. Everything we do with light must have a purpose, be deliberate, serve the story, and reveal something about the characters in the process

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Reviews

Dennis
December 20, 2022
This course does not disappoint! It’s exactly what was advertised and what I was looking for to take my lighting game to the next level. ?
Anuraag
October 26, 2022
Great insight into lighting. Though i'm not a cinematographer this course will bring a great understanding on the subject while discussing a shot with my cinematographer.
Rick
July 11, 2022
Distracting music, spelling mistakes in the subtitles, very short content, not very advanced concepts. You can not call this advanced.
Dorian
March 14, 2022
El curso dice Advanced lighting pero en realidad me parece que es intermedio cuando mucho. Me hubiera gustado que las imágenes de esquemas que muestran se pudieran descargar en un pdf. Además creo que estaría bueno más profundidad en cuanto a exposición.
Prashant
January 4, 2022
While the course says Advanced Lighting, I felt there was barely anything that was 'advanced' in it. Also the duration of the course was not even an hour (45mins to be exact).
Steeve
November 30, 2021
I love the teacher. Love the voice. Love the models. However, this should have had behind the scene examples of live examples of staff members illustrating these tools being applied. The animations help, but don't give a precise understanding of what should be expected. Besides that, the tips were helpful.
Chris
December 25, 2020
concise and full of examples specifically for a studio lighting or indoor setting. This does not cover outdoor lighting, but provides lighting philosophy that could be applicable in both scenarios.
Doron
December 10, 2020
The course was informative and appealing. Itgave me firm knowledege of 3 source lighting , of which I have done in the past using intuition only, but now it established my confidence in doing so by knowledge. I was expecting, however, some more edvenced technics to be introduced.
Philipp
November 21, 2020
I would have expected a course titled "advanced lighting techniques" to go beyond the basics. In the introduction, it is stated that the course will not deal with basics and that types of lights and diffusors need to be known. Advert After having watched one third of the course, I have learned that you need to ask yourself: "Where would the light be coming from?" Because "It's important to fit the lighting to the scene it's taking place in." As well as "The more diffusion is added [to a light source], the less light reaches the subject." Either I have progressed beyond advanced, but this course sadly and truly did not meet my expectations.
Sumera
August 28, 2020
Finally, a class for advanced and intermediate pros. Skipped the basics, and got into the serious stuff very quickly. Looking forward to seeing how it expands. Well worth the purchase!
Khan
August 16, 2020
Awesome lessons! As a professional, it was exactly what I was looking for in an online course, and the examples were very clear to follow..

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