Set Lighting Technician's Handbook : Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution.
Box, Harry C.
Set Lighting Technician's Handbook : Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution. - 5th ed. - 1 online resource (625 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Set basics: Your first barbecue -- Job descriptions of the lighting crew -- Director of photography -- Gaffer -- Best boy electric -- Lighting technicians -- Lighting control personnel -- Rigging crew -- The fixtures person (or department) -- Generator operator -- Grip department -- The company -- Production staff -- The director's team -- Script supervisor -- Camera department -- Sound department -- Locations -- Transportation -- Art department -- The general public -- Block, light, rehearse, tweak, shoot -- CHAPTER 2 Preproduction planning: The package, expendables, personal tools -- Preproduction planning -- Scouting locations -- Production meetings -- Wireless spectrum management meeting -- The load-in -- Prepping lights and stands -- The production van -- Expendable supplies -- Gels and diffusion -- Electrical expendables -- Tools and personal gear -- Tool belt -- Meters -- Other hand tools -- Personal gear -- CHAPTER 3 Lighting objectives -- Storytelling objectives -- Mood -- Naturalism -- Composition -- Time constraints -- Photographic objectives -- Light level -- Foot-candles -- F-stops and T-stops -- Factors affecting light levels -- Contrast, latitude, and the tonal value -- Spot meters -- Calibrated monitor -- Signal monitoring -- CHAPTER 4 Lighting strategies -- Motivating and reactive lighting -- Lighting faces -- Rembrandt cheek patch lighting -- Near- and far-side keys -- Side light -- Wrapping the key -- Front light -- Bottom light -- High in front or high to the side -- The lighting triangle -- Fill -- Eye light -- Backlights, kickers, and hair lights -- Lighting the acting positions -- Back cross keys -- Lighting the space and the background -- Ambience -- Backdrops. CHAPTER 5 Manipulating light: Tools, techniques, and the behavior of light -- Falloff: your friend, the inverse square law -- Cuts and patterns -- Breakup patterns -- Cucaloris -- Branchaloris -- Tape on an empty frame -- Shading and selectively controlling brightness -- Movement -- Flicker effects: television screen, flame, and fire -- Other moving light effects -- Soft light -- Softness of light -- Linear light sources -- Bounce light -- Diffusion materials -- Diffusion on the fixture -- Fabric soft boxes -- Controlling soft light -- Flags and teasers -- Grids, egg crates, and louvers -- Lanterns -- CHAPTER 6 Color -- Color space -- Kelvin color temperature scale -- Shifting color up and down the color temperature scale -- Using MIRED units to calculate color shifts -- Correlated color temperature (CCT) -- Green/magenta axis -- Measuring color -- Colored light -- LED full-color -- Theatrical gels -- CHAPTER 7 LED lights -- Capabilities of LEDs -- Color options -- Phosphor white, daylight, or tungsten -- Remote phosphor -- Bi-color -- The reasons behind tunable-white and full-spectrum lights -- Full spectrum -- LED color control methods -- Lighting effects -- Dimming LEDs -- Dimming curves -- Bottom of the dimmer range -- The seven things every lighting technician should know about LEDs -- Control -- Soft light fixtures -- Rigging versatility with lightweight softlights -- Small "face" lights -- Larger full-featured heads -- Green/blue screens, backings, and translights -- ARRI SkyPanel® -- Establishing base settings -- Settings menus -- Light operation -- LED tubes -- Single- and bi-color tubes -- Full-color tubes -- Pixel tubes -- Ribbon and tiles -- Ribbon -- Power and control -- Soldering -- Other LED form factors -- Orbiter -- Automated fixtures -- Camera-mounted and small LEDs -- Ring lights -- Portable wall wash -- Punchy LEDs. Architectural -- CHAPTER 8 Established lighting instruments -- Tungsten -- HMI and other metal halide arc lamps -- Fresnels -- Flood/spot control -- Tilt angle -- Fresnel beam -- Fresnel accessories -- 20k and 24k tungsten lights -- PAR lights -- PAR lamps -- PAR cans -- PAR arrays -- Axially mounted PAR fixtures -- Ellipsoidal reflector spotlights -- Dedolights -- Beam projectors -- Area lights and backing lights -- Space lights -- Backing lights -- Cyc strips -- Open-face lights -- Tungsten -- HMI "open-face" lights -- Tungsten soft lights -- CHAPTER 9 Operating HMI lights -- HMI lamps -- ARRIMAX -- Double-ended lamps -- Other notes about HMI lamps -- Normal HMI operation -- Striking -- DMX512-controlled ballasts -- UV protection and the safety loop circuit -- Color temperature -- Operating conditions -- Troubleshooting -- Power -- Cueing for HMIs -- CHAPTER 10 Stands and rigging -- Stands -- Baby stands -- Junior stands -- Offsets, side arms, extensions, and right angles -- Using stands -- Crank-up and motorized stands -- Grip stands -- Booms -- Rigging hardware -- Nail-on plates -- Set wall mounts -- Clamps -- Grids and greenbeds -- Other rigging hardware -- CHAPTER 11 Set protocol -- Set protocol -- Staging area -- Lighting the set -- Walkie-talkies -- Safeties -- Protecting sets and locations -- Teamwork -- Warnings -- Stingers and cabling -- Cables crossing the set -- Cables crossing work areas -- Stingers -- Preventing kick-outs -- Repatching -- 2k plugging policy -- Labeling stingers and power cords -- Coiling stingers and cable -- Circuit balance and capacity -- Overheating and short circuits -- Smoke, fire, and other bad smells -- Sprinkler systems -- Elevated work -- Ladders -- Parallels -- Working at height -- Aerial lifts (Condors and scissor lifts) -- Color correction on location -- Correcting commercial/industrial fluorescents. Heat protection and gels -- Gelling windows -- Practical bulbs -- PH bulbs and photoflood bulbs -- MR-16 -- Mushroom floods -- Dimming practical lamps -- Wiring fixtures and outlet boxes -- The wrap -- Coiling feeder cable -- Inventory -- Replacing lamps -- Matching the lamp to the fixture -- Mercury -- Replacing tungsten and HMI lamps -- CHAPTER 12 Lighting control networks -- DMX512 -- DMX512 addressing -- The patch -- Fixture numbers -- The cheat sheet, fixtures, and universes -- DMX values and device personality -- General Device Type Format (GDTF) -- Multiple DMX512 universes -- Remote Device Management (RDM) -- Building wired DMX512 systems -- Deviations from the standard -- Data termination -- Capacity -- DMX cable -- Optical isolators and splitters -- DMX512 testing -- Loss of signal -- Ethernet, Art-Net, sACN, and RDMnet -- DMX over Ethernet -- Other Ethernet protocols -- RDMnet -- Advantages of Ethernet -- Lighting control apps -- Wi-Fi -- Wireless DMX -- To be or not to be wireless -- Wireless DMX transmitters and receivers -- Satellite™ and Constellation -- Bluetooth -- Mesh -- Wireless system management -- DMX controllers and lighting consoles -- Small controllers -- Consoles -- Console operations -- Pixel mapping -- CHAPTER 13 Electricity -- The fundamentals of electricity and electrical formulas -- Volts (electromotive force) -- Amperes (current) -- Watts (power) -- The power formula -- Resistance -- Ohm's law -- Parallel and series circuits -- How NOT to use electrical formulas -- AC vs. DC -- Power systems -- 240/120 single-phase, three-wire plus ground system -- 208/120 three-phase, four-wire plus ground system -- Single-phase derived from delta-connected, three-phase system -- 480/277 V three-phase system -- Electrical safety systems -- Control devices and polarity -- Overcurrent protection -- The current-carrying capacity of cable. Types of feeder cable -- Equipment grounding -- System ground -- Generators -- Ground rods -- Bonding power sources -- CHAPTER 14 Power distribution equipment -- Components of a simple portable distribution system -- 208 V vs. 240 V systems -- Overcurrent protection and cable ampacity -- Protecting cable at its ampacity -- Step-down box -- The 400 percent rule -- Feeder runs -- Camlock connectors -- Reversed ground system -- Parallel cable -- Test jacks -- Camlock spiders -- Distribution centers -- Multi-pin connectors and receptacle boxes -- Stage pin (Bates) connectors -- Edison -- NEMA L6-20 and L6-30 -- PowerCON and TRUE1 -- Socapex -- Adapters -- Adapters for big lights -- DMX-controlled distribution and power with data -- CHAPTER 15 Dimming equipment -- Color temperature -- Dimming types and applications -- Household dimmers -- Variac dimmers -- Lunchbox dimmers and silent on-set dimmers -- Dimmers tailored for LEDs and small incandescent lamps -- Stand-alone dimmers -- Dimmer packs -- Dimmer racks -- Wireless DMX on-set dimmers -- Dimmer packs and racks -- Dimmer rooms -- Electronic dimmer designs -- Forward-phase control dimmers-SCR -- Reverse-phase control dimmers -- Sinewave dimmers -- Strand CD80 dimmer packs -- Installation and setup -- Troubleshooting -- ETC sensor dimmer system -- CHAPTER 16 Electrical rigging -- The role of the rigging gaffer -- Rigging paperwork -- Layers of an electrical system -- Hard-power layer -- Dimmer-circuit layer -- Control layer -- Cable and generator loading -- Sizing neutral conductors -- Sizing equipment grounding conductors -- Sizing grounding electrode and bonding conductors -- Rigging cable -- Protect your back -- Traffic areas -- Fire lanes -- Identifying cable, labeling circuits -- Lacing feeders -- Ventilating and separating runs -- Waterfalls -- Placement of distribution boxes -- The Gak package. Root out bad contacts.
A friendly, hands-on training manual and reference for lighting technicians in motion picture and television production, this handbook is the most comprehensive guide to set lighting available. It provides a unique combination of practical detail with a big-picture understanding of lighting, technology, safety, and professionalism.
9780429749346
Cinematography-Lighting-Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Electronic books.
TR891 / .B69 2020
778.5/343
Set Lighting Technician's Handbook : Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution. - 5th ed. - 1 online resource (625 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Set basics: Your first barbecue -- Job descriptions of the lighting crew -- Director of photography -- Gaffer -- Best boy electric -- Lighting technicians -- Lighting control personnel -- Rigging crew -- The fixtures person (or department) -- Generator operator -- Grip department -- The company -- Production staff -- The director's team -- Script supervisor -- Camera department -- Sound department -- Locations -- Transportation -- Art department -- The general public -- Block, light, rehearse, tweak, shoot -- CHAPTER 2 Preproduction planning: The package, expendables, personal tools -- Preproduction planning -- Scouting locations -- Production meetings -- Wireless spectrum management meeting -- The load-in -- Prepping lights and stands -- The production van -- Expendable supplies -- Gels and diffusion -- Electrical expendables -- Tools and personal gear -- Tool belt -- Meters -- Other hand tools -- Personal gear -- CHAPTER 3 Lighting objectives -- Storytelling objectives -- Mood -- Naturalism -- Composition -- Time constraints -- Photographic objectives -- Light level -- Foot-candles -- F-stops and T-stops -- Factors affecting light levels -- Contrast, latitude, and the tonal value -- Spot meters -- Calibrated monitor -- Signal monitoring -- CHAPTER 4 Lighting strategies -- Motivating and reactive lighting -- Lighting faces -- Rembrandt cheek patch lighting -- Near- and far-side keys -- Side light -- Wrapping the key -- Front light -- Bottom light -- High in front or high to the side -- The lighting triangle -- Fill -- Eye light -- Backlights, kickers, and hair lights -- Lighting the acting positions -- Back cross keys -- Lighting the space and the background -- Ambience -- Backdrops. CHAPTER 5 Manipulating light: Tools, techniques, and the behavior of light -- Falloff: your friend, the inverse square law -- Cuts and patterns -- Breakup patterns -- Cucaloris -- Branchaloris -- Tape on an empty frame -- Shading and selectively controlling brightness -- Movement -- Flicker effects: television screen, flame, and fire -- Other moving light effects -- Soft light -- Softness of light -- Linear light sources -- Bounce light -- Diffusion materials -- Diffusion on the fixture -- Fabric soft boxes -- Controlling soft light -- Flags and teasers -- Grids, egg crates, and louvers -- Lanterns -- CHAPTER 6 Color -- Color space -- Kelvin color temperature scale -- Shifting color up and down the color temperature scale -- Using MIRED units to calculate color shifts -- Correlated color temperature (CCT) -- Green/magenta axis -- Measuring color -- Colored light -- LED full-color -- Theatrical gels -- CHAPTER 7 LED lights -- Capabilities of LEDs -- Color options -- Phosphor white, daylight, or tungsten -- Remote phosphor -- Bi-color -- The reasons behind tunable-white and full-spectrum lights -- Full spectrum -- LED color control methods -- Lighting effects -- Dimming LEDs -- Dimming curves -- Bottom of the dimmer range -- The seven things every lighting technician should know about LEDs -- Control -- Soft light fixtures -- Rigging versatility with lightweight softlights -- Small "face" lights -- Larger full-featured heads -- Green/blue screens, backings, and translights -- ARRI SkyPanel® -- Establishing base settings -- Settings menus -- Light operation -- LED tubes -- Single- and bi-color tubes -- Full-color tubes -- Pixel tubes -- Ribbon and tiles -- Ribbon -- Power and control -- Soldering -- Other LED form factors -- Orbiter -- Automated fixtures -- Camera-mounted and small LEDs -- Ring lights -- Portable wall wash -- Punchy LEDs. Architectural -- CHAPTER 8 Established lighting instruments -- Tungsten -- HMI and other metal halide arc lamps -- Fresnels -- Flood/spot control -- Tilt angle -- Fresnel beam -- Fresnel accessories -- 20k and 24k tungsten lights -- PAR lights -- PAR lamps -- PAR cans -- PAR arrays -- Axially mounted PAR fixtures -- Ellipsoidal reflector spotlights -- Dedolights -- Beam projectors -- Area lights and backing lights -- Space lights -- Backing lights -- Cyc strips -- Open-face lights -- Tungsten -- HMI "open-face" lights -- Tungsten soft lights -- CHAPTER 9 Operating HMI lights -- HMI lamps -- ARRIMAX -- Double-ended lamps -- Other notes about HMI lamps -- Normal HMI operation -- Striking -- DMX512-controlled ballasts -- UV protection and the safety loop circuit -- Color temperature -- Operating conditions -- Troubleshooting -- Power -- Cueing for HMIs -- CHAPTER 10 Stands and rigging -- Stands -- Baby stands -- Junior stands -- Offsets, side arms, extensions, and right angles -- Using stands -- Crank-up and motorized stands -- Grip stands -- Booms -- Rigging hardware -- Nail-on plates -- Set wall mounts -- Clamps -- Grids and greenbeds -- Other rigging hardware -- CHAPTER 11 Set protocol -- Set protocol -- Staging area -- Lighting the set -- Walkie-talkies -- Safeties -- Protecting sets and locations -- Teamwork -- Warnings -- Stingers and cabling -- Cables crossing the set -- Cables crossing work areas -- Stingers -- Preventing kick-outs -- Repatching -- 2k plugging policy -- Labeling stingers and power cords -- Coiling stingers and cable -- Circuit balance and capacity -- Overheating and short circuits -- Smoke, fire, and other bad smells -- Sprinkler systems -- Elevated work -- Ladders -- Parallels -- Working at height -- Aerial lifts (Condors and scissor lifts) -- Color correction on location -- Correcting commercial/industrial fluorescents. Heat protection and gels -- Gelling windows -- Practical bulbs -- PH bulbs and photoflood bulbs -- MR-16 -- Mushroom floods -- Dimming practical lamps -- Wiring fixtures and outlet boxes -- The wrap -- Coiling feeder cable -- Inventory -- Replacing lamps -- Matching the lamp to the fixture -- Mercury -- Replacing tungsten and HMI lamps -- CHAPTER 12 Lighting control networks -- DMX512 -- DMX512 addressing -- The patch -- Fixture numbers -- The cheat sheet, fixtures, and universes -- DMX values and device personality -- General Device Type Format (GDTF) -- Multiple DMX512 universes -- Remote Device Management (RDM) -- Building wired DMX512 systems -- Deviations from the standard -- Data termination -- Capacity -- DMX cable -- Optical isolators and splitters -- DMX512 testing -- Loss of signal -- Ethernet, Art-Net, sACN, and RDMnet -- DMX over Ethernet -- Other Ethernet protocols -- RDMnet -- Advantages of Ethernet -- Lighting control apps -- Wi-Fi -- Wireless DMX -- To be or not to be wireless -- Wireless DMX transmitters and receivers -- Satellite™ and Constellation -- Bluetooth -- Mesh -- Wireless system management -- DMX controllers and lighting consoles -- Small controllers -- Consoles -- Console operations -- Pixel mapping -- CHAPTER 13 Electricity -- The fundamentals of electricity and electrical formulas -- Volts (electromotive force) -- Amperes (current) -- Watts (power) -- The power formula -- Resistance -- Ohm's law -- Parallel and series circuits -- How NOT to use electrical formulas -- AC vs. DC -- Power systems -- 240/120 single-phase, three-wire plus ground system -- 208/120 three-phase, four-wire plus ground system -- Single-phase derived from delta-connected, three-phase system -- 480/277 V three-phase system -- Electrical safety systems -- Control devices and polarity -- Overcurrent protection -- The current-carrying capacity of cable. Types of feeder cable -- Equipment grounding -- System ground -- Generators -- Ground rods -- Bonding power sources -- CHAPTER 14 Power distribution equipment -- Components of a simple portable distribution system -- 208 V vs. 240 V systems -- Overcurrent protection and cable ampacity -- Protecting cable at its ampacity -- Step-down box -- The 400 percent rule -- Feeder runs -- Camlock connectors -- Reversed ground system -- Parallel cable -- Test jacks -- Camlock spiders -- Distribution centers -- Multi-pin connectors and receptacle boxes -- Stage pin (Bates) connectors -- Edison -- NEMA L6-20 and L6-30 -- PowerCON and TRUE1 -- Socapex -- Adapters -- Adapters for big lights -- DMX-controlled distribution and power with data -- CHAPTER 15 Dimming equipment -- Color temperature -- Dimming types and applications -- Household dimmers -- Variac dimmers -- Lunchbox dimmers and silent on-set dimmers -- Dimmers tailored for LEDs and small incandescent lamps -- Stand-alone dimmers -- Dimmer packs -- Dimmer racks -- Wireless DMX on-set dimmers -- Dimmer packs and racks -- Dimmer rooms -- Electronic dimmer designs -- Forward-phase control dimmers-SCR -- Reverse-phase control dimmers -- Sinewave dimmers -- Strand CD80 dimmer packs -- Installation and setup -- Troubleshooting -- ETC sensor dimmer system -- CHAPTER 16 Electrical rigging -- The role of the rigging gaffer -- Rigging paperwork -- Layers of an electrical system -- Hard-power layer -- Dimmer-circuit layer -- Control layer -- Cable and generator loading -- Sizing neutral conductors -- Sizing equipment grounding conductors -- Sizing grounding electrode and bonding conductors -- Rigging cable -- Protect your back -- Traffic areas -- Fire lanes -- Identifying cable, labeling circuits -- Lacing feeders -- Ventilating and separating runs -- Waterfalls -- Placement of distribution boxes -- The Gak package. Root out bad contacts.
A friendly, hands-on training manual and reference for lighting technicians in motion picture and television production, this handbook is the most comprehensive guide to set lighting available. It provides a unique combination of practical detail with a big-picture understanding of lighting, technology, safety, and professionalism.
9780429749346
Cinematography-Lighting-Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Electronic books.
TR891 / .B69 2020
778.5/343