Overview
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Learn how to raise the production value of your videos with important but simple lighting tools and techniques.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Why lighting is essential
- The role of lighting in telling a story
- Lighting and location working together to create an exterior scene
- Lighting and location working together to create an interior scene
- How appropriate lighting can enhance your video productions
- Natural light
- High-key and low-key lighting
- Directing the viewer's attention with lighting
- How does lighting reveal or obscure subjects and objects?
- Using light to add depth
- Shifting the light to heighten drama
- Shifting the light to add richness
- Controlling contrast
- Working with natural light for exterior scenes
- Working with natural light for interior scenes
- Mixing natural and artificial light
- The potential of practical light
- Scouting your location
- Applying what you've learned to your own productions
- Know the story you need to tell
- What lighting style is best for your story?
