Lighting for Film: Simple not Plain Information

Lighting for Film: Simple not Plain is a course that aims to empower filmmakers, particularly young filmmakers, with the skills and knowledge to create impactful lighting on a low budget.

High-Impact, Low-Budget Lighting.

Young filmmakers are often taught to de-prioritize lighting. They are told that lighting takes too much time, money, and expertise to have any profound effect on their work. Lighting for Film: Simple not Plain with Bill Megalos changes that.

In Lighting for Film, Bill will show you how to light technically, instinctually, and cinematically. You will learn how to light for both interior and exterior work and how the simplest lighting techniques can produce the most dramatic effects.

You’ll learn how to:

• Produce story-altering lighting effects with minimal equipment
• Light for both of interior and exterior content
• Choose instruments that suit your budget and filming goals

Bill will teach professional lighting techniques you can use on your own or with a crew that defy the everyday budget and common-wisdom of filmmakers having to tell a story “in the dark.”

What You’ll Learn In Lighting for Film: Simple not Plain?

1. Class Introduction
2. The Qualities Of Light
3. Hard Light Vs. Soft Light
4. Three Point Lighting
5. Color Temperature & White Balance
6. Basic Light Safety & Gear
7. Lighting A Subject
8. Lighting A Room In Daylight
9. Lighting Day To Look Like Night
10. Creating Drama With Light
11. Lighting At Dusk
12. Lighting In The Shade
13. Changing Light: Shooting At Sunset
14. Lighting For Night

About Author

Bill Megalos has taught filmmaking at SVA in New York City, the Univ. of Southern California, and is currently on the faculty of the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine. He has also taught filmmaking workshops in Asia, Africa, Europe and Central America.

His work as a director/filmmaker ranges from commercials and music videos to dramatic films and over 30 full-length documentaries His biography of Jack Benny for HBO was awarded the Cine Golden Eagle Award, and his series of family planning mini-dramas in Bengali won the World Health Organization’s Global Award for Media Excellence. He also spent two years traveling with Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, for the documentary, “To Catch A Dollar,” which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

Bill was a director for the extended edition DVD of “Return of the King,” (2004) – the final Lord of the Rings film, as well as cameraman on the documentaries: “Aretha,” “Paris is Burning,” the Emmy Award-winning “W. Eugene Smith”, PBS’ “Quest for the Killers” and “Legendary Trails,” as well as the Academy Award-winning “Down and Out in America.”

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