Lighting "lingo"

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TheJackyl

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Is there any sites which have good explanations of different lighting "lingo" or could some experienced dvxusers break some of this down?

There are terms like far cycs, space lights, coops, dinos, maxis, sky pans, minis, quadlights, gators, coffin, bo bo lights, cones, obie lights, juniors, babies, baby babies, nooklites, the "miss francis" - some seems to be slang for a number of different lights, not a specific brand, but I'm not sure and I cant find info searching these terms on google, I also imagine there are even more terms I havent heard of yet, which Id love to know about, any help? Thanks.
 
Lighting lingo seems to be a completely different world. I've spent years learning about cameras, editing, directing, producing and even distributing my own stuff. I've shot several handfuls of short films and even directed my own little indie feature, yet I've never used c stands, gobos, flags, scrims, ect. I have hardly even heard of this stuff up until a few years ago. So you can probably imagine how much my lighting has sucked up until recently. :)

But then I've been shooting shoestring budget indie films. Most of which I've been the only crew member with any working knowledge of anything.

A lot of it still confuses me and is new to me. However there is a really great video podcast called The Grip Guide where the host Brent Bye takes you though all the terms and how to properly set up lights and stands and what everything means. Unfortunately they only ever made 11 short episodes ending in 2008. Looks like they were planning to make a ton more but just never did. Either way it seems like a good place to start if you know nothing.
 
Visit the Mathews Studio Equipment website (and/or get their catalog) and get an Avenger catalog.

Look into getting Blain Brown's "Motion Picture and Video Lighting" and Harry Box's "Set Lighting Technicians Handbook."

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it is useally easyist to learn the lingo while on set because there are like ten names for every thing and depending on where your working they are called differant things
 
Chris Santucci said:
Visit the Mathews Studio Equipment website (and/or get their catalog) and get an Avenger catalog.

Look into getting Blain Brown's "Motion Picture and Video Lighting" and Harry Box's "Set Lighting Technicians Handbook."

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Agreed on Box's book. Some theoretical stuff as well as great information on rigging and the tools of the trade.
 
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