Fill

In this DVD on video lighting, the experts at Videomaker teach lighting techniques so you can set up the best lighting environment for a video camera. Lessons on studio lighting & outdoor lighting will show you how to light videos like a professional videographer.

Lighting can be extremely complicated. Some movie and TV shoots use dozens of lights to assure proper scene lighting. Here's a primer to help dispel the mystery.

Lighting can make or break the mood of your video. If you wish to evoke suspense, tension or romance, then traditional three-point lighting isn't enough.

Some folks consider it a tired cliche, but it's important to know how to set 3-point lighting, so you can work within or without this classic lighting style.

We are entering a new era of video production. Our hard work will show in all its HD glory and our sloppy mistakes will glare in HD horror. But light can help us.

No money for more lights? No problem! Here are sure-fire, no-power solutions to making your subject shine.

We are entering a new era of video production. Our hard work will show in all its HD glory and our sloppy mistakes will glare in HD horror. But light can help us.

In lighting, the most important aesthetic quality is mood: the feeling communicated by the lighting design.

Make your on-camera talent look their best by following these five simple steps.

Make your light kit do double duty for your next interview.

Light placement can have a dramatic impact on the faces you light.

For individual subjects, nothing beats the tried-and-true combo of key, fill and back lights. Classic three-point lighting (key, fill and back light) is sometimes dismissed as "yearbook lighting." True, it can look hokey in story videos, but whenever you have a narrator, a spokesperson, an interviewee or anyone who stays in one place and talks, three-point lighting is bullet proof.

It's easy to light two people at once, whether with one light or eight.

Simple lighting makes cleaner, more natural images, while reducing production hassles.

Lighting to achieve a certain mood is easy if you work with three basic elements: key, contrast and color.

The rugged and the glam.

FROM: gaffertom@barndoor.com
TO: goldilocks@beanbagstate.edu
SUBJECT: Flower children wedding plan B