Introduction to Film Photography Direction
Illuminating the set (Scene 1, Romance)
A course by David Curto , Cinematographer
About the video: Illuminating the set (Scene 1, Romance)
Overview
“We will learn how to illuminate our scene and how we carry out everything we have been preparing. Our lights will give life to space and our characters. Each angle, color, texture, position, etc ... will determine the emotions we want to convey. In this case, we will start with the romantic sequence and see how the design is different from the other scene that we will perform later. ”
In this video lesson David Curto addresses the topic: Illuminating the set (Scene 1, Romance), which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Film Photography Direction. Learn to convey the emotions of a story through light and a camera.
Partial transcription of the video
“LIGHTING THE SET (Romantic Scene) After seeing the materials we will use in filming, I'm going to show you now, here on the set, All the different lights that I have positioned. I want to explain one by one how I mounted them, So you can see how they are worked. In the first step we have this fund, that we are going to work with an HMI that we have here, and I will explain how it is mounted. We have this HMI mounted on a tripod and we are bouncing it on this wall to give us a softer light in the environment and then we are going to put this red jelly so that all of this tone floods us. Agre...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Film Photography Direction
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Photography & Video -
Areas
Film, Film, Video & TV, Lighting Design, Photographic Lighting
David Curto
A course by David Curto
David Curto is in love with cinema and photography. He studied at the Higher School of Cinema and Audiovisual of Catalonia (ESCAC). A native of Spain, in 2010 he moved to Colombia, where he lived for 8 years. He currently divides his time between the two countries.
He has worked for brands such as Motorola, Honda, Ford, Avianca, Nestlé, and Heineken and has filmed music videos for artists like Sebastian Yatra, David Bisbal, Juan Magán, Aitana, Ana Guerra, Lalo Ebratt, Greeicy, Tini, and others. He worked as the director of photography on films such as The Boy by Craig Macnaill, Fucking Games and Anthropos by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, and Bad Lucky Goat by Samir Oliveros, presenting the latter worldwide at the SXSW festival in Austin (USA).
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