ABSTRACT

Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Third 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. 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 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 in the third edition is an expanded resource section, new illustrations and tables, and coverage of new lighting products and techniques for how to use them.

chapter 1|13 pages

Set basics: Your first barbecue

chapter 3|39 pages

Light fixtures: The basic tungsten arsenal

chapter 4|20 pages

Stands and rigging

chapter 5|28 pages

Lighting objectives and methods

chapter 7|20 pages

Electrician’s set protocol

chapter 8|33 pages

Light fixtures: The HMI arsenal

chapter 9|22 pages

Fluorescent lights

chapter 10|23 pages

LED lights

chapter 12|33 pages

Electricity

chapter 13|39 pages

Distribution and dimming equipment

chapter 14|22 pages

Working with electrical power

chapter 15|30 pages

Electrical rigging

chapter 16|22 pages

Power sources

chapter 17|17 pages

Special circumstances and practices

chapter 18|19 pages

Specialty lighting equipment