Lighting for Digital Video and Television, 3rd Edition

by John Jackman

Enhance the visual quality of your motion pictures and digital videos with a solid understanding of lighting fundamentals. This complete course in digital video lighting begins with how the human eye and the camera process light and color, progresses through the basics of equipment and setups, and finishes with practical lessons on how to solve common problems. Filled with clear illustrations and real-world examples that demonstrate proper equipment use, safety issues, and staging techniques, Lighting for Digital Video presents readers with all they need to create their own visual masterpieces.



Features: Film style techniques for digital video productions Creating "movie" looks on a low budget Lighting for HD How to maximize existing light Interview setups color correction techniques in mixed lighting situations

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

262 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2002

About the author

John Jackman is an award-winning independent director and producer who has been involved in dramatic and video production since the mid-seventies. Widely regarded as an authority on digital production techniques, John has been a contributing editor to DV Magazine, and has taught workshops for NAB, the American Film Institute (AFI), Digital Video Expo, the Library of Congress, along with various film schools, colleges, and university programs.

Reviews

[Bernie4444 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great ideas if you are into exposure

When you are in business, you will want to cut through the fluff and get a more technical reference such as this book. I look for a technical book for any discipline I am interested in. "Lighting for Digital Video and Television" was meant to be practical. I use it however as a supplement to "Making Movies Work: Thinking Like a Filmmaker". It is also useful as a supplement to AutoCAD when you are rendering a three-dimensional object or making a walkthrough of an AutoCAD virtual structure. I have just recently started to dabble with Screen Plays. My first is a monster movie called "Chicken of the Sea" I am looking forward to adding lighting to the script.