Here is the current syllabus for FM3244 Lighting for Film & Video Spring 2016 at Temple University.

Here is a folder containing user manuals for various equipment to which you have access in the class.  

Here is a list of required and suggested materials for the class (and where to get them).

Week 14

Assignment: Final Essays & Portfolio

Week 13

A useful tool: AbelCine's FOV calculator. 

Also, a little (somewhat technical) article explaining RAW, UNCOMPRESSED, and LOG.

We've noticed that in *all* of your scene recreations, your versions have included more setups in the final edit than those in the actual film. We've talked about this in class. Here's an additional, short visual essay on shooting too much coverage and playing things out in a master:

Similarly, this video illustrates how staging and lighting help determine where we look in the frame:

 

 

Week 12

Readings: Roger Deakins Q&A extracts; Vittorio Storaro interview; Owen Roizman interview

Additional Reading: ASC article on "Drive" (dp Newton Thomas Sigel); Wally Pfister on Moneyball

Assignment: Expressive Lighting

Viewing: The Conformist (1970, dp Vittorio Storaro):

 

Viewing: Deakins on Expressive Light in a scene from "No Country for Old Men"

 

Viewing: Compositions in "Drive": 

 

Week 11

Throwback Gripping Video:

 

Interview with "Creed" DP Maryse Alberti:

And here's an interview on "Creed"'s on "oners" with the Steadicam Op Ben Semanoff.

Audio recording of Christian Bale on DP / Gaffer set etiquette as it relates to actors.

“It was a very emotional scene,” said one set worker, who could not speak for attribution because she signed a confidentiality agreement. “We cleared everyone out of their sight-line and Shane was the only one there. And he was wandering back and forth between Bryce and Christian’s eyeline.”

 

DP Andrij Parekh on lighting "Blue Valentine" with one light, starts at 14:40: 

 

Sam Levy on "Block, Light, [Rehearse, Tweak], Shoot":

 

Week 08

Assignment: Shooting-Script, Floor-plan, Storyboard

Readings: Excerpt from "Shot by Shot" by Katz. Excerpts from Rabiger "Coverage and the Shooting Script"

Bordwell on Editing and Space via "Analytical and Constructive Editing":

Harris Savides, ASC (RIP) Interview: 



Week 07

Great trip today at Expressway!

Here's some basic G&E tools they showed us:

 

Week 06

Assignment: Mid-term Shooting a Scene from Oscar 2016 Nominated Script

Link to Scripts

Week 05

Reading: Arsenal of Lights from Light--Science and Magic; and Gripology from Blain Brown's book.

I also want you to watch at least until about 33 minutes of this DP commentary from Mathew Libatique on Requiem for a Dream here (I've emailed you the password for it). The whole thing is worth watching, as this is perhaps the most detailed discussion by a DP on a decently budgeted, interestingly shot film: 

Week 04

Assignment: Hollywood Stills & Painting Recreation Assignment

Readings: "Hollywood Portraits"; "Arsenal of Lights" from Light--Science and Magic

Painting Reference Images: Examples from Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Vermeer, and others.

Although Freddie is making the light softer, this is definitely an example of how NOT to light for a portrait: 

Week 03

In class Quiz

Readings: "Electricity" from Blain Brown Motion Picture and Video Lighting; Excerpt on Electricity from Harry Box's The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook; ---and, as a supplement, "Chapter 3: Light Fixtures: The Basic Tungsten Arsenal" from The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook.

Some Documents: How Not to Blow a Circuit ; HMI Safety

Week 02

Readings: Exposure Theory -- Ch.3, 4, 6, and 7 from Dave Viera's Lighting for Film and Digital Cinematography

Assignment: Lighting Relativity Video Due in Class on Feb. 4th

Here is a camera report form you can use for this week's assignment (and others).

Quiz from this week with answer key.

And here's our little latitude test we did in class. Ideally, we would have been able to keep the f-stop and subject position constant, and just add or take away light. But this was good enough to demonstrate the basic idea:

Here's a little video tutorial on light metering. Note that he discusses incident meters (which we covered in class) and "spot meters" (which we haven't discussed yet). 

Week 01

Readings: Gordon Willis from Masters of Light; "Brightness, Color, and Contrast" from Light--Science and Magic

Assignment: Lighting with One Light Due in Class on Jan. 28th