5 Lighting Concepts Every Cinematographer Needs To Know

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@@jolan3720 That’s especially a bummer since in my opinion, the perk of film school is the connections you make. The film program I went to was not great but it introduced me to a lot of collaborators and close friends. My time in journalism though is what actually let me go out and get filmmaking experience.

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12 minutes of cinematographer's favorite subject! : lighting.

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Cinematography is the heart of cinema .

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I agree. There are still way too many people out there that don't see the art behind cinema. Most people just care about the story of a movie and don't even notice how important cinematography is

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@@CaughtInTheLoop I think that both of them are important, I have seen movies which story was simply brilliant and I loved them (even when the cinematography was poor) but a brilliant cinematography without a good story, doesnt catch you in the same way neither. A good film has to work in both aspects at the same time in my opinion!

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Which is why there are people that work exclusively on cinematography

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Yeah its more like "here are the tools you have at your disposal, now you can create the art in your head." Otherwise you'll study your inspirational sources endlessly not having a clue as to how you actually achieve the look.

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"... stories which are more lighthearted in nature" Midsommar, Lost in Translation

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Who needs film school with channels like yours dude? lol. I'm thinking of having the look of my short be kinda soft and cool for the main scene which is a conversation in an office, and then darker but more colorful for a bunch of flashback scenes, which I might or might not shoot with a fish eye lens lol

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Hope the prep for your short is going well Zach

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I have a book with all your videos, I write each and every single lesson you teach. This has been the most helpful, thank you so much In Depth Cine Please do a full video cinematography breakdown of Midsommar?

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The fact that the example in high key lighting was Midsommar and their description was light hearted and cheery is hilarious

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Awesome ! What’s your favourite film?

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@@jv8studios geez there are way too many to choose from since they all have their own personality. Some I can watch 100s of times would be Pulp Fiction, Fifth Element (guilty pleasure), John Wick, Matrix (original), Inception, Etc. For ones that stand out : Hateful Eight, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Once Upon a Time in the West, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Freaks, Arrival, etc Timeless Classics : Toy Story, Goodfellas, Seven Samaurai, Star Wars (ep 4-6), Wizard of OZ, etc My guilty pleasures : What We Do in the Shadows, Month Python and the Holy Grail, Wolf of Wall Street, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Mad Max Fury Road, Wall E, etc

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@@YakAttack915 those are some classic films ! I love the work of Tarantino! And The Matrix is definitely a game changer in the film industry!

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No one else i can find on YT explains these key concepts as well and with great examples like you do. Wonderful job putting together and editing this video. And a usual, your examples are from many om personal favorite films

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Thank you for always inspiring all us aspiring cinematographers

[@beamsgr]

Really helpful video & I enjoyed it - my only recommendation is to explain why you are bouncing/diffusing the light, i.e., to use the secondary source (wall, ceiling, reflector, diffuse screen) as a larger light source in order to soften the light - the larger the light source, the softer the light and the more wrap around effect it will achieve. This can get confusing for people when we talk about the sun because people think of the actual size of the sun (huge) as a large light, but in terms of lighting, it is a relatively small source because it is relatively small in relation to our scene - a tennis ball in the sky with all the light rays coming in one direction - and so produces a hard light with sharp shadows. By setting up a diffuse screen between our subject and the sun we change the light source from the sun to the diffuse screen, which is "larger" than the sun itself (relatively speaking) and so creates a softer light. Good stuff.

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As someone who took digital media as a trade skill, this infinitely more helpful than what I was taught.

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this was fantastic. it helped provide 'names' to concepts i intuitively knew and understood but didn't know proper terminology for. thx!

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@@jv8studios it's already done, you can watch it on my channel

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Another awesome video! I loved the look of Midsommar, contrasting the high key look with such intense subject matter made for a very unsettling watch :) kinda similar to the shining in that regard

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@@jv8studios if you’re asking me, yes i do mostly aerial cinematography.

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@@tomistenqvist1311 that’s really cool! Do you use a drone ?

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@@jv8studios yes a lot drone stuff. I work at a company called KopterCam based in Finland. We have bigger drones that can fly cinema cameras like the Arri Mini or R3D cameras and a few DJI Inspire2’s for smaller jobs. We also provide a lot of other cool toys like a cablecam and MotoCrane but yeah mostly drone 👍

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Video on Gordon Willis coming next week.

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Funny how at 8:02 you mention the word "beauty" in regards to lighting techniques, but at this time point, it would make a good place to put an in-video link to a video about the importance of makeup!

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A great rundown! Thank you for this knowledge, even though I'm watching as a director!

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One quick thing, at 9:17 you talked about daylight from the sun being 5600k. For the viewers sake you should have differentiated what temperature sunlight is and why daylight is at 5600k. The whole thing about daylight is its a mixture of the diffused cold light of the sky which is at about 7000K, give or take, and direct sunlight which is actually 4000k, again give or take. So daylight isnt just from the sun, its from the whole sky :))

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This was awesome...making a short stop motion film...using lamps, I've noted that tracing paper (though clumping a few pieces together) helps soften the light...

[@tatehildyard5332]

Pillow cases and white t-shirts work too. I remember helping a friend out with her short and it took forever to rig this old, beat up, monster of an HMI light because we were working in a really small space. The light itself was way too intense and hard for the natural daylight look they wanted and the rental package didn’t have any diffusion sources. I saw one of the workers was wearing a white shirt under his hoodie and I read that they did it on Frances Ha so I asked him to take his shirt off and clipped it to the front of the light to soften it. We nearly set the shirt on fire but it worked.

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'high key lighting is used for stories which are more light hearted in nature' *footage of Midsommar*

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4:16 What is the brush used in this part? cool!

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[@victorpanov2850]

From what film is the example scene starting 07:59 with Scarlett Johansson? thanks

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I believe it's "Lost in Translation". I could be wrong.