Learn about the latest and greatest lighting equipment for video production, including LEDs, portable lighting, and solutions for textured, pure white, and pure black backdrops.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Lighting with LEDs
- Benefits of LED lighting
- Intensity and color temperature
- Accessories on a budget
- Creating affordable textured backdrop with lights
- It’s all about creating patterns
- Creating a hand-cut gobo
- Using a pattern backdrop
- Creating a gobo with a transparency projector
- Using a projector to create custom backdrops
- Creating a textured backdrop with lights
- Using precut metal gobos
- Ordering your own gobos
- Using a DJ projector to create gobos
- Creating backdrops with effects glass
- Adding a virtual gobo with Tiffen Dfx
- What is the Lume Cube?
- Unboxing the Lume Cube
- Controlling the Lume Cube
- Unique features of the Lume Cube
- How do I shoot a pure white backdrop?
- Using a paper roll
- Using a portable backdrop
- Lighting a cyc wall
- Gear overview
- Small lights
- Battery-operated lights
- Lowel Blender
- Lowel portable spotlight
- How do I shoot a pure black backdrop?
- Using a duvetyne or fabric
- Using a portable backdrop system
- Shooting a black studio
- Gear overview
Taught by
Richard Harrington and Robbie Carman