Production Techniques: Color & Light

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY • ENFS-340 • SPRING 2018

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Apr 25 2018

Noob Cinematography Mistakes

Courtesy of the fine folks at Aputure, here are five common mistakes made by beginning cinematographers.

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Apr 23 2018

Recreating Looks from the 2018 Oscar Nominees

Want your film to look like it deserves an Oscar?  In this tutorial, Jordy from Cinecom recreates shots from Darkest Hour, The Shape of Water, Blade Runner 2049, and Dunkirk.  What I love about this video is that it goes through both the filming and color grading aspects of the process.

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Apr 23 2018

Teal & Orange All Day

Pushing your color grade towards the complementary colors teal and orange is very popular right now – either with the shadows going teal and the highlights going orange or with the shadows and highlights going teal and the midtones going orange.  While the look is definitely trendy, it’s also a legitimately effective way to grade your footage, since it emphasizes the skin tones of your subject.  Here are some explanations and guides to the teal and orange look.

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Apr 20 2018

Shaping Light with The Slanted Lens

Need a quick refresher on some of the tools for shaping light?  The always-enthusiastic Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens has a great video on how to use flags, silks, and nets to manipulate light.

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Mar 30 2018

CineFix’s Top Ten Cinematographers

Who’s the greatest cinematographer of all time?  While I think there are some names missing from this particular list (Emmanuel Lubezki, Christopher Doyle), it’s a great overview of some of the best in the business.  You’ll never guess who gets the top spot.

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Mar 22 2018

Is Aperture Affected by Crop Factor?

There is some debate in the filmmaking community – even among professionals – as to whether sensor-size crop factor should be applied to aperture.  As you may recall, the size of a camera’s sensor affects the apparent focal length of a lens – so, a 25mm lens on a four-thirds sensor has the same field of view as a 50mm lens on a full frame sensor.  Is aperture affected in the same way?

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Mar 05 2018

Lighting Stop-Motion

Ever wonder how lighting is done on a miniature scale for stop-motion animation?  Check out this video from Cooke Optics.

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Mar 01 2018

One Room, Three Looks

Here’s an informative video from Cinematography Database in which one room is lit for three different looks – sunset, day, and night.

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Feb 27 2018

Lighting Cars

Need to film a scene in an automobile?  Check out these tutorials for lighting car interiors.

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Feb 22 2018

Wooden Niccolls

The folks over at The Camera Store TV do some of the best camera reviews on the web, but they sometimes take on more creative projects as well.  Here, watch as they recreate scenes from Goodfellas and Collateral.

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Feb 15 2018

Filming an Interrogation

Here’s a quick video with some great tips on emulating the lighting from iconic interrogation scenes.

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Feb 08 2018

Mastering the Color Palettes of Famous Directors

Courtesy of StudioBinder, here are a few videos that look at how different directors use color schemes and color psychology in their films.

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Feb 05 2018

Photography Terms Are Stupid

Ever been confused by the myriad of strange terms photographers use?  So has everyone who has ever held a camera.  Photo and video gurus Tony and Chelsea Northrup get mad about it in this funny – but painfully accurate – look at some of the least logical photography terms.

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Feb 01 2018

Lighting An Office Scene

You might be surprised by how many movies, television shows, and short films take place in offices.  Here’s a quick look at how to recreate some office looks, including the toxic workplace from Fight Club and, of course, the banal-but-ridiculous sitcom setting from The Office.

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Jan 18 2018

Kubrick’s Lighting and Cinematography

Here are a couple of videos that examine the brilliant lighting techniques and cinematography utilized by Stanley Kubrick.  The first looks at Kubrick’s use of practical lights and the second delves into his 1975 classic Barry Lyndon.

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