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| What guide lines do you want to remember for lighting an early morning or late night shot? |
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| You can use sun for 3/4 back and then bounce fill for the face if you want. |
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| What guide lines do you want to follow for character movement during the day exteriors? |
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| You can use the biggest lights possible and the inverse square law to create large zones of even readings. |
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| What guide line do you want to follow for a sunny midday, how can you light the shot of an ext.? What lights can you cheat for kickers? |
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| Build a large over head diffusion over the main talent. You can even cheat HMI to kick light. |
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| What guide lines do you want to follow to make talent at a window or sky be a silhouette? (there are two ways) |
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1. Take a spot reading of the sky and open the iris 1 stop from that reading.
2. Take a spot reading of the talent's face and close down the iris 4 stops from that reading. |
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| What guide lines do you want to follow for the background of a day interior shot compared to the face of talent? |
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| Backgrounds are usually 1.5 stops darker than faces of talent. |
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talent at a day interior window to be recognizable INSTEAD of a silouette?
How many stops should the window be over exposed? |
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The window should be 2 stops over exposed.
Take a spot reading of the window and open the iris 2 stops from that reading. Now light the talents face. |
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| What guide lines do you want to remember for lighting a golden hour shot when the sky is darkening and you have a limited time to shoot? (an int. shot by a window) |
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| You want to maintain the ratio of light inside and outside by adding scrims to the lights that you have set up already. |
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| What guide lines do you want to remember for lighting a golden hour shot when the sky is darkening and you have a limited time to shoot? (exterior) |
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| Take a spot meter reading of the sky and open up the iris 2 stops from that reading. Take an incident reading of the talents face now and note the ratio between the sky's spot and the talents incident reading. Add scrims to the lights to maintain the ratio. |
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| What guide lines do you want to remember for lighting a night exterior? (With moonlight, storefront light, and city park light). How can you enhance the look on a talents face? |
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Add 3/4 CTB to Tungsten or 1/4 CTO to HMI.
Take a spot reading of talents face and close down the iris 2 stops from that reading. |
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| What guide lines do you want to remember for making your lighting look 3-D and interesting? |
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| Layer the light intensity, and change the color temperatures used. |
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| What guide lines do you want to remember for lighting backgrounds of a night interior? |
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| The background is usally 3-5 stops darker than faces. |
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| What guide lines do you want to remember for using practicals? |
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| When they are 3-4 shops over the iris setting, by putting them on a dimmer. |
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| Can you use lighting to show the emotions of a character, the events to come in the story and and emphasis to certain items in the shot? |
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| Which Conrad Hall film had a happy accident of the water dripping down on the glass in a window cast a shadow onto the talents face? |
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| What are some of Conrad Hall's films? |
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Fat City
The Day of the Locus
Searching for Bobby Fisher
Road to Perdition |
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| On most features and tv shows a lot of lighting hanging above a set will be patched to what? What will this be patched to? |
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| A dimmer and a dimmer will be patched to a control console. |
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| Lighting control consoles are mostly used in what venues? |
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| What is the main difference between motion picture lights and light dimming systems for concerts and theater? |
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| The power cord cabling of the lights. |
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| An ETC Source 4 has how many amps? What is it called? |
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| 6 Stage Pin to ______ connector. |
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| What is used to connect an edison to a stage pin? (or vise versa) |
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| What is 3 ways to set lighting on a board? |
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Faders/Grandmaster
Keypad
Track Ball |
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| What is a cheap method of dimming lights in a group? |
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Each Leprechaun box has room for
____ edison outlets, ____ of them are connected to 1 _____ AMP plug.
The other ____ are connected to the other ____ AMP plug. |
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| Each Leprechaun box has room for 12 edison outlets 6 of them are connected to 1-20 AMP plug. The other 6 are connected to the other 20 AMP plug. |
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| How many lights can each Leprechaun Box can hold as many as ___ lights as long as their combined total does not exceed ___ AMPS. |
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.. as many as 12 lights
.. does not exceed 40 AMPS. |
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Each Leprecaun Box can be assigned
to ____ faders on the lighting console? |
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| ..6 faders on the lighting console. |
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| What is the first thing to do with a light meter? a color temp. meter? |
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| You should set them to the right ASA and type of film you're using. |
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| Which meter will show you a CC mode and a LB mode? What does each of these modes mean/do? |
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Color Temp. meter.
CC- color compenstaion, tells you how much magenta or green gell must be added to a florescent light.
LB- Light Balance, tells you which CTO or CTB must be added to your light. |
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| What CRI number do you want? Why do you want a higher CRI number? |
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| The closest number to 100, it has a higher render color to it. |
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| Do you shoot for the highlight or the shadows when working with HDV? |
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How should you diffuse lights in HDV?
(3 ways) |
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1.filter on the lens
2.diffussion on the lights
3.gamma on the camera |
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| Which filter do you want to use on the face? |
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What is the WFM700?
What do we use it for?
It only accepts standard def, how do you fix that? |
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Wave Format Monitor
Luminance-WFM
Color-Vectorscope
AJA Box |
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What is clipping the whites?
What is crusing the blacks?
What does the luminace look like? |
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When there are bold white lines around 100%-clipping the whites
When there are bold white lines around
0%-crushing the blacks
Rectangular, horizontal lines |
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What often causes clipping of the whites? How can you solve this problem?
What causes crushing of the blacks? How can you solve this problem? |
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White shirts often cause clipping of the whites, you can change the shirt, or double net it.
The sun often causes crushing of the blacks with shadows, you can change it by adding a bounce. |
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With a vectorscope:
What is clock direcion?
What is the lenght mean?
What does it mean to go beyond the circle?
What does simpty color bars look like?
When there's a dot in the screen? |
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Clock direction-color
Length-intensity of color
Beyond circle-illegal colors
Simpty-double bow ties/star pattern
Dot-white balance |
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| To solve the problem with the spot reading of a white card, a good rough adjustment is to? |
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| To solve a problem with the spot reading of a black card, a good rough adjustment is to... |
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| The name of the light mounted on the front of the camera that can lower contrast in a scene is called a... |
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| one of the most beautiful effects of using a fog filter is a halo look that occurs around... |
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| A filter that is chosen to soften the face, but not the eyes... |
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