Set Lighting Technician's Handbook (4th Edition)
Practical technical information and useful techniques for set lighting
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Title: Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition; Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution
Category: Filmmaking, Set Lighting, Lighting Equipment
Author: Harry Box
ISBN-13 number: 9780240810751
Binding: Paperback
No. of Pages: 615
Publisher: Focal Press
Publication date: 2/08/10
Dimensions: 7.5"x9.25" (18x23.5cm)
Description:
Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition, is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions.
The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety. It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including LEDs, xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. Since its first edition, this handy on-set reference continues to be widely adopted as a training and reference manual by union training programs as well as top university film production programs.
Features:
•An indispensable on-the-job reference for tens of thousands of film lighting technicians
•Includes professional-level procedures that save time and promote safety and efficiency
•Written by a lighting technology expert with 20 years of experience as a gaffer and director of photography.
Contents:
Ch 1 Set Basics: Your First Barbecue
Ch 2 Preproduction Planning: Lighting Package, Expendables and Personal Tools
Ch 3 Light Fixtures: The Basic Tungsten Arsenal
Ch 4 Stands and Rigging
Ch 5 Lighting Objectives and Methods
Ch 6 Manipulating Light: Tools Techniques and the Behavior of Light
Ch 7 Electrician's Set Protocol
Ch 8 Metal Halide Arc Lights -- HMI
Ch 9 Fluorescent Lights
Ch 10 LED Lights
Ch 11 DMX and Networks
Ch 12 Lighting Control Programmer: Control, Moving Lights and Computer Aided Lighting
Ch 13 Electricity
Ch 14 Electrical Codes and Standards
Ch 15 Distribution and Dimming Equipment
Ch 16 Rigging
Ch 17 Aerial Lifts
Ch 18 Power Sources
Ch 19 Special Circumstances and Practices
Ch 20 Specialty Lighting
Ch 21 The Work World; Appendices; Glossary; Index
Category: Filmmaking, Set Lighting, Lighting Equipment
Author: Harry Box
ISBN-13 number: 9780240810751
Binding: Paperback
No. of Pages: 615
Publisher: Focal Press
Publication date: 2/08/10
Dimensions: 7.5"x9.25" (18x23.5cm)
Description:
Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition, is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions.
The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety. It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including LEDs, xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. Since its first edition, this handy on-set reference continues to be widely adopted as a training and reference manual by union training programs as well as top university film production programs.
Features:
•An indispensable on-the-job reference for tens of thousands of film lighting technicians
•Includes professional-level procedures that save time and promote safety and efficiency
•Written by a lighting technology expert with 20 years of experience as a gaffer and director of photography.
Contents:
Ch 1 Set Basics: Your First Barbecue
Ch 2 Preproduction Planning: Lighting Package, Expendables and Personal Tools
Ch 3 Light Fixtures: The Basic Tungsten Arsenal
Ch 4 Stands and Rigging
Ch 5 Lighting Objectives and Methods
Ch 6 Manipulating Light: Tools Techniques and the Behavior of Light
Ch 7 Electrician's Set Protocol
Ch 8 Metal Halide Arc Lights -- HMI
Ch 9 Fluorescent Lights
Ch 10 LED Lights
Ch 11 DMX and Networks
Ch 12 Lighting Control Programmer: Control, Moving Lights and Computer Aided Lighting
Ch 13 Electricity
Ch 14 Electrical Codes and Standards
Ch 15 Distribution and Dimming Equipment
Ch 16 Rigging
Ch 17 Aerial Lifts
Ch 18 Power Sources
Ch 19 Special Circumstances and Practices
Ch 20 Specialty Lighting
Ch 21 The Work World; Appendices; Glossary; Index
| Product: | Set Lighting Technician's Handbook (4th Edition) |
| Manufacturer: | Focal Press |
| Model: | 9780240810751 |
| SKU: | 9780240810751 |
| RM Product #: | 4941 |
