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LinkedIn Learning

Lighting Design for Video Productions

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to raise the production value of your videos with important but simple lighting tools and techniques.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Why lighting is essential
1. Lighting Fundamentals
  • The role of lighting in telling a story
  • Lighting and location working together to create an exterior scene
  • Lighting and location working together to create an interior scene
  • How appropriate lighting can enhance your video productions
  • Natural light
  • High-key and low-key lighting
2. Objectives of Lighting
  • Directing the viewer's attention with lighting
  • How does lighting reveal or obscure subjects and objects?
  • Using light to add depth
  • Shifting the light to heighten drama
  • Shifting the light to add richness
3. Lighting Techniques
  • Controlling contrast
  • Working with natural light for exterior scenes
  • Working with natural light for interior scenes
  • Mixing natural and artificial light
  • The potential of practical light
4. Course Summary
  • Scouting your location
  • Applying what you've learned to your own productions
  • Know the story you need to tell
  • What lighting style is best for your story?

Taught by

Eduardo Angel

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