Chapter 10 "Lighting Instruments"

1. Chapter 10
LIGHTING

2. Small opportunities are
often the beginning of
great enterprises.
Demosthenes

3. I. Objectives Of Television
Lighting*
A. To Fulfill Technical
Requirements
B. To Provide a Three-
Dimensional Perspective

4. C. To Direct Attention to
Important Elements
D. To Establish the Mood
E. To Fix the Time
F. To Contribute to Aesthetic
Composition

5. II. Studio Lighting Instruments
A. Spotlights
1. Fresnel spotlight
2. Ellipsoidal spotlight
a. cucoloris (cookie*
or kook*)
b. gobo*

6. 3. Follow spot*
4. Lensless*
B. Floodlights
1. Scoop
2. Softlight and broad
a. softlight
b. broad (pans)

7. 3. Fluorescent floodlight
bank
4. Strip, or cyc, light

8. III. Field Lighting Instruments
A. Portable Spotlights
1. Spotlights with lenses
2. Open-face spotlights
3. Internal reflector spot

9. B. Portable Floodlights
1. V-light
2. Soft-box
3. Chinese lantern
4. Portable fluorescent
bank
5. LED light

10. C. Diffusing Portable Spotlights
1. Bouncing the light
2. Attaching a scrim
3. Using a diffusion umbrella
4. Attaching a soft-box
D. Camera Lights

11. IV. Lighting Control Equipment
A. Mounting Devices
1. Pipe grid and counterweight batten
2. C-clamp
3. Sliding rod and pantograph
4. Floor stands

12. B. Directional Controls
1. Barn doors
2. Flags
3. Reflectors

13. C. Intensity Controls: Instrument Size,
Distance, and Beam
1. Instrument size
2. Distance (inverse square law*)
3. Beam
4. Diffusers (scrims, frosted gels,
screens)*

14. D. Basic Principle of Electronic Dimmers
1. Manual dimmers
2. Computerized dimmers
3. Patchboard

15. V. Light Intensity
A. Foot-candles and Lux
B. Incident light
C. Reflected light
D. Instrument of measurement*

16. VI. Calculating Light Intensity
(Inverse Square Law)
VII. Operating Light Level: Baselight
A. Baselight Levels
1. Not enough baselight
2. Too much baselight

17. B. Color Temperature and White-Balancing
1. Color Temperature (Kelvin scale)
2. White-Balancing
a. matching light sources
b. how to white-balance

18. VIII. Types of Lamps
A. Incandescent
B. Quartz or Tungsten-Halogen*
C. Fluorescent
D. HMI
E. LED

19. F. Sunlight*
1. Sunny day*
2. Cloudy day*
IX. Color Media
A. How to Use Color Media
B. Mixing Color Gels

21. Resolve to perform what you ought,
then perform without fail what you
resolve.
Benjamin Franklin

23. Without some goal and some
effort to reach it, no one can
live.
Fydor Dostoyevsky