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Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution
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Fourth Edition
By
Harry Box, Hollywood-based gaffer and director of photography whose credits include Heroes, Everybody Hates Chris, & many other films & TV shows
Description
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 fourth edition:
New
to the fourth edition:
* More coverage of the aesthetics of lighting, including pictures of set-ups at different budgets
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Detailed information on LED technology and gear
* Harmonized with union safety (Local 728) and training procedures
* More coverage
than ever before about setting up and running DMX systems and DMX enabled devices, including wireless DMX networks
* Completely
revised and updated sections of HMIs, tungsten light fixtures, and fluorescent technologies
* Additional information on dealing
with current harmonics, working with portable generators.
* New section on planning and organizing and dimmer board operations
* New section on using 480V power
* In addition to previsualization software, new material provides a primer on creating professional
light plots and using computer aided design software
* New additions to the arsenal of electrical distribution equipment that
make our sets safer and easier to power
* More rigging tricks and techniques
* Coverage of operating in the work world: how
to find work, network, build relationships, and finally, how to protect your health in a physical job
* Written in the same friendly,
easy-to-read style that has made this book so popular
Audience
Professional lighting technicians for motion pictures and television
Contents
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
Methods
Chapter 6 Manipulating Light: Tools Techniques and the Behavior of Light
Chapter 7 Electrician's Set
Protocol
Chapter 8 Metal Halide Arc Lights -- HMI
Chapter 9 Fluorescent Lights
Chapter 10 LED Lights
Chapter 11 DMX and Networks
Chapter 12 Lighting Control Programmer: Control, Moving Lights and Computer Aided Lighting
Chapter 13 Electricity
Chapter 14 Electrical Codes and Standards
Chapter 15 Distribution and Dimming
Equipment
Chapter 16 Rigging
Chapter 17 Aerial Lifts
Chapter 18 Power Sources
Chapter 19
Special Circumstances and Practices
Chapter 20 Specialty Lighting
Chapter 21 The Work World
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Paperback, 624 pages, publication date: APR-2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-81075-1
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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