Lighting for Film and Television 3-DVD Set Now In DVXuser Shop
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mentatDUKE
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Mine arrived today. Lightning quick delivery. Devouring it now....
You'll find some insights along those lines, but they may not be exactly what you might expect.
You'll find some insights along those lines, but they may not be exactly what you might expect.
Right. Re: rooms with white walls, the advice is "don't do it". Verrrry, helpful.
Up next a great instructional video for surgeons - what to do when your patient gets cancer. Remedy: "advise patient not to get cancer next time, and send him on his way - now go walk it off". Brilliant!
I see a great future in instructional videos along these lines
Right. Re: rooms with white walls, the advice is "don't do it". Verrrry, helpful.
Up next a great instructional video for surgeons - what to do when your patient gets cancer. Remedy: "advise patient not to get cancer next time, and send him on his way - now go walk it off". Brilliant!
I see a great future in instructional videos along these lines
But we said a lot more than that. We give ways to deal with white walls and minimize the impact of them. And in the technique section, we specifically start in a room with very light beige walls and then through the course of the lessons show what we did to make it better.
Look, a room with white walls is a room with subjects surrounded by a bunch of giant bounce cards. There's only so much you can do, and we show you what the most effective things are -- and also some of the less effective ways to deal with it, and why they are so.
We certainly don't cover every possible way; we only had so much time.
With the Sound DVD, the equivalent question is, what do you do in a room full of echo -- or intrusive outside noise? Best thing to do? Move to a place which doesn't have it. But barring that, we give plenty of other ways to deal with it, too, with the caveat that they simply won't be as effective. We very much tried to do the same thing in the Lighting DVD.
Look, a room with white walls is a room with subjects surrounded by a bunch of giant bounce cards. There's only so much you can do, and we show you what the most effective things are -- and also some of the less effective ways to deal with it, and why they are so.
We certainly don't cover every possible way; we only had so much time.
With the Sound DVD, the equivalent question is, what do you do in a room full of echo -- or intrusive outside noise? Best thing to do? Move to a place which doesn't have it. But barring that, we give plenty of other ways to deal with it, too, with the caveat that they simply won't be as effective. We very much tried to do the same thing in the Lighting DVD.
Matt Gottshalk
Resident Preditor
If it is anywhere NEAR the same quality as the audio one, and I'm sure it is, it will be great.
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And your order shipped today, Matt. Thanks!
@David Jimerson That is more than enough! I ordered mine saturday and Im hoping since I live in NC it will arrive by tomorrow. So excited! Lighting is the one thing I love but can never seem to get right. I hope this helps as reading books provided me with so-so results. I think i'm more of a visual learner.
rogar-Happy(DBG):I just watched the entire 3 dvd set, even though it just arrived yesterday, and I was extremely impressed... After watching I don't feel as intimidated and don't feel I'm wasting my time while playing with my own equipment. Typically I just have other people do it who don't know it very well either.
Excellent!
We don't have a specific lesson about lighting for noir, but you should easily be able to take the lessons and determine how to do it. We designed it so that you should be able to light any genre once you absorb the lessons.
We didn't really say "if you want X genre, you put the lights here, here, and here"; instead, we show you what it looks like when you put lights in specific places -- so it's kind of the opposite approach. THEN we show examples of different kinds of genres and moods and characters, and why certain looks work for those -- and then you should be able to put two and two together and make things look the way you want. Instead of just learning to mimic what someone tells you to do, you learn WHY things work in particular ways, and then that should empower you to come up with the HOW in most any situation.
We think it's a more solid way to teach it.
We didn't really say "if you want X genre, you put the lights here, here, and here"; instead, we show you what it looks like when you put lights in specific places -- so it's kind of the opposite approach. THEN we show examples of different kinds of genres and moods and characters, and why certain looks work for those -- and then you should be able to put two and two together and make things look the way you want. Instead of just learning to mimic what someone tells you to do, you learn WHY things work in particular ways, and then that should empower you to come up with the HOW in most any situation.
We think it's a more solid way to teach it.
Doddle Guys
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good news to hear this is now available, sounds like a great buy.
edsonkwushu
Active member
Ordered mine yesterday, it's shipping today! Looking forward to it.
Doddle Guys
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Sounds like a very detailed and informative dvd. Great to have the full lighting breakdowns with someone like Macgregor on there as well.
snowleopard
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Looks good. The videos in the links are only finished project; would like to see a how-to segment on set-ups. Is natural, outdoor, atmospheric lighting covered much? Glad to see this is 3 DVDs. Lighting is so extensive, I would think because lighting is so extensive, one DVD wouldn't cut it.
We do have some segments on outdoor lighting, both instructionally and within the breakdowns of the short films. Will be getting a excerpts reel up soon . . .