Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Third Edition, is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting, be they a lamp operator, best boy, rigging crew, gaffer, or director of photography.
This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety.
It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including follow spots, xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater lights, lighting effects units, in addition to all the standard tungsten and HMI lamps.
Since its first edition, this handy on-set reference continues to be widely adopted as a training and reference manual by union training programs as well as top university film production programs.
1 Set Basics: Your First Barbecue
2 Preproduction Planning: Lighting Package, Expendables,
and Personal Tools
3 Light Fixtures - The Basic Tungsten Arsenal
4 Light Fixtures - The Basic HMI Arsenal
5 Fluorescent Lights
6 Stands and Rigging
7 Lighting Objectives and Methods
8 Manipulating Light: Tools, Techniques, and the Behavior of
Light
9 Electrician's Set Protocol and Aerial Lifts
10 Specialty Lighting
11 Electricity
12 Distribution Equipment, Rigging, and Dimmers
13 Power Sources
14 The Work World