ABSTRACT
Set basics: Your first barbecue 1 All the technical aspects of filmmaking-film stocks, cameras, lighting, sound, effects-involve a
myriad of small details that, taken as a whole, seem impossibly complex. As with any craft, to
become a master requires years of experience and exposure to many different situations. It has been
my experience, however, that no single piece of equipment, procedure, or technique is really compli-
cated; there is no one thing that cannot be explained and understood in less than 10 minutes. Making
movies is the artful application of millions of relatively simple details. This book helps with some of
those details, describing procedures that save time and promote safety, clarifying aspects of the craft
that are confusing and often misunderstood, and supplying a wealth of information about the
hundreds of gadgets of which lighting technicians are so fond.
