Basic Lighting for Audiovisual Projects
Direction of light: The expressive power of light.
A course by Enrique Silguero , Director of Photography
Joined May 2012
About the video: Direction of light: The expressive power of light.
Overview
“One of my favorite lessons: you'll see how you can change the personality of a face, just by changing the position light. ”
In this video lesson Enrique Silguero addresses the topic: Direction of light: The expressive power of light., which is part of the Domestika online course: Basic Lighting for Audiovisual Projects. Learn to use light as an emotions generator in your cinematic pieces.
Partial transcription of the video
“Direction of light: The expressive power of light Well now we are going to see the direction of the light, which as I have already told you is one of my favorite lessons because with it we can see how we can transform a face. So how can we transform what we want to express with light, simply by moving the position from which the light hits the character and also from which the light hits the backgrounds and the scenery, but we will see that in a later lesson. For now we are just going to work with what we can achieve changing the position of the light from a frontal to a lateral direction, ...”
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Course summary for: Basic Lighting for Audiovisual Projects
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Category
Photography & Video -
Areas
Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Lighting Design, Photographic Lighting

Enrique Silguero
A course by Enrique Silguero
Enrique Silguero is a cinematographer from Salamanca, Spain, with experience in film, television series, documentaries, music videos, short films, and commercials. In his words, his specialty is telling stories through light, shadow, color, and composition.
His work can be seen on the main Spanish television networks: Ministerio del Tiempo on TVE, Cuarto Milenio on Cuatro, el Capítulo 0 on #Cero on Movistar Plus. He has worked on music videos for La Oreja de Van Gogh, Miguel Bosé, and Malú. In advertising, his clients include Sony, Coca-Cola, Adidas, and Iberdrola.
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