2 camera shooting

[ozduc]

Dramatic lighting is lighting that is arranged along with pictorial elements to further the story by creating mood, time and space. So lighting a scene dramatically means that you have created or furtherd those elements of the story by the use of light.

In that case, I don't see how you can make a statement like:

It will outline the eight points of lighting. Once you understand those you'll see how it would be impossible to dramatically light two facing individuals.

I have seen many movies and TV shows with two individuals facing each other and it looked pretty dramatic.:evil:

 

[Carlos_E._Martinez]

I am not sure what Gopher_Greene meant by "...it would be impossible to dramatically light two facing individuals."

You can frame two individuals from the right, from the left and from the middle and shoot all at the same time. You can certainly light, from the roof, two people talking and make it look dramatic. Even if you shoot with two cameras or more.

But you are also not too specific by your statement. How do you know if those movies or TV shows were shot with more than one camera? Such shots were staged until recently in film and TV for just one camera, and nobody seems to have noticed the difference.

IMHO most two-camera shootings are used for two simultaneous shots of the same actor, one much closer than the other. This provides instantaneous cut options, perfectly in sync movement wise.

For shooting two people facing each other, using one camera on the right and one of the left, you may have to make more compromises. The lighting might have to be more flat, probably.

 

[MalcolmOng]

Well I'm not sure about with lighting, but for my film countdown, we shot with at least 3 cameras. Only a select few scenes had single camera coverage. Basically the mantra we adhered to was shoot as much as possible - the crap can be cut out in editing. Probably not a very good philsoophy, but when you only have 2 days on location to film a 30 minute long film, you gotta move at speed