Introduction to Film Photography Direction
Lighting up the set (Scene 2, Drama)
A course by David Curto , Cinematographer
About the video: Lighting up the set (Scene 2, Drama)
Overview
“We will replicate the same thing we have done in the first scene. You will see how the change is and how the same space can help us tell something totally different. You just have to illuminate correctly to create the atmosphere that your story requires.”
In this video lesson David Curto addresses the topic: Lighting up the set (Scene 2, Drama), 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 (Drama scene) After finishing sequence 1, let's start sequence 2. This is the dramatic sequence, which, unlike the first one, is romantic and this we are going to the opposite that would be the drama. In the part of designing the cinematography, we talked about how our lights would be distributed and we had the 1200 outside, to support what would be the light we have from outside, natural light, but we will mark the character we have here, of Mariana. That will give us to have a face with a little three quarters and let's have some more shade to the part that gives the came...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Film Photography Direction
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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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