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Set lighting technician's handbook : film lighting equipment, practice, and electrical distribution /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Box, Harry C.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press, ©2010.
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
Cinematography > Lighting > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Cinéma > Éclairage > Guides, manuels, etc.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Techniques > Lighting.
Cinematography > Lighting
Electronic books.
Handbooks and manuals
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Ch 1 Set Basics: Your First Barbecue; Ch 2 Preproduction Planning: Lighting Package, Expendables and Personal Tools; Ch 3 Light Fixtures: The Basic Tungsten Arsenal; Ch 4 Stands and Rigging; Ch 5 Lighting Objectives and Methods; Ch 6 Manipulating Light: Tools Techniques and the Behavior of Light; Ch 7 Electrician's Set Protocol; Ch 8 Metal Halide Arc Lights
  • HMI; Ch 9 Fluorescent Lights; Ch 10 LED Lights; Ch 11 DMX and Networks; Ch 12 Lighting Control Programmer: Control, Moving Lights and Computer Aided Lighting; Ch 13 Electricity; Ch 14 Electrical Codes and Standards; Ch 15 Distribution and Dimming Equipment; Ch 16 Rigging; Ch 17 Aerial Lifts; Ch 18 Power Sources; Ch 19 Special Circumstances and Practices; Ch 20 Specialty Lighting; Ch 21 The Work World; Appendices; Glossary; Index.
  • Set basics : your first barbecue
  • Preproduction planning : lighting package, expendables, and personal tools
  • Light fixtures : the basic tungsten arsenal
  • Stands and rigging
  • Lighting objectives and methods
  • Manipulating light : tools, techniques, and the behavior of light
  • Electrician's set protocol
  • Light fixtures : the HMI arsenal
  • Fluorescent lights
  • Led lights
  • Lighting control : control networks, moving lights, advanced devices, and computer applications in lighting
  • Electricity
  • Distribution and dimming equipment
  • Working with electrical power
  • Electrical rigging
  • Power sources
  • Special circumstances and practices
  • Specialty lighting equipment.