Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth 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, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions.
The 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 LEDs, xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. 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.
New to the expanded Fourth Edition :
- Expanded coverage of LED lights, lighting control networks, computer applications in lighting, advanced automated and digital
lighting devices, creating effects with ellipsoidal spotlights, wet locations and GFCI protection, rigging, dimmer systems, modern
battery technoloty, small generators, and much more
- Reflects all the current industry safety standards, guidelines, practices, and codes
- Companion web site offers exclusive content, including tables, illustations, articles, historical information, and more.
Chapter 1 Set basics: Your first barbecue
Chapter 2 Preproduction planning: Lighting package, expendables, and personal tools
Chapter 3 Light fixtures: The basic tungsten arsenal
Chapter 4 Stands and rigging
Chapter 5 Lighting objectives and medthods
Chapter 6 Manipulating light: Tools, techniques, and the behavior of light
Chapter 7 Electrician's set protocol
Chapter 8 Light fixtures: The HMI arsenal
Chapter 9 Fluorescent lights
Chapter10 LED lights
etc.
"Harry has taken the mystery out of set lighting for the beginner or pro. Current and includes the most up-to-date tricks of the trade. A book written by a pro who loves and respects his craft and is selfless in sharing information."
-- Mike G. Moyer, gaffer, Steel Magnolias, In the Line of Fire, Groundhog Day --
"Box's style is reminiscent of an old buddy showing his best friend the ropes...perhaps the most easily read technical handbook to date...the broadest in scope and coverage, yet carefully covers the essential details."
-- Seth Greenspan, Filmcrew Magazine --