The camera doesn't pick up light the same way our eyes do. There may be enough lighting, but it may not appear even in the frame or certain parts of the composition may not appear the way you want. Lighting also helps to create the mood of the film. In this workshop, we will learn how to light your frame with available resources and some hacks that can help you get a better shot with no-budget filmmaking.)

Workshop Leader: Kainat Thebo

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82368857053

Meeting ID: 823 6885 7053

(14 minutes)  How to create a storyboard on paper – (non-artists welcome!) 

 

(15 minutes)  The video we saw in the Magic of the Living Lens workshop

 

(15 minutes)  Using still photography to learn the basics

 

(16 minutes)  Guidelines for composing your shots

 

(16 minutes)  How to create movement to capture emotion

 

(15 minutes) When shooting your film, coverage is essential (to avoid crying in the editing suite)

 

Visions of Light: Documentary film about cinematography.

 

Side By Side: Documentary about filmmakers discussing and debating film vs. digital with Keanu Reeves.

 

Tips on Directing Actors

 

Quotes on Directing by Elia Kazan

 

Michael Cane on Film Acting

 

Sydney Pollack on Directing Actors 

6:40-11:00

 

Guillermo del Toro on Directing Actors

50:00-1:11:00

 

Steven Spielberg on Working with Actors

 

PT Anderson on Working with Actors

 

Greta Gerwig on Working with Actors

 

Creating the World of Kalank

The Impact of Art Direction in Film

Wes Anderson's Production Design - Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Visual Analysis

Set Design Principles

 

Roger Deakins on "Learning to Light"- (Duration: 8 min)

 

Roger Deakins on "Film Lighting- (Duration: 6 min)

 

Roger Deakins on the Art of Practical Lighting- (Duration: 5 min)

Motivated Lighting Examples by Roger Deakins- (Duration: 5 min)

$0 Lighting Hacks That Make You Look Like a Pro- (Duration: 6 min)

 

Visions of Light (1992)- (Duration: 01 hour 31 min)

 

Cinematic Lighting Techniques Tips and Tricks- (Duration: 14 min)

 

Cinematic Lighting (Without Lights!)- (Duration: 10 min)

 

Ultimate Guide to Cinematic Lighting- (Duration: 13 min)

 

Light Cinematically Without Any Lights- (Duration: 9 min)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Challenge: Can you figure out how they got those moving shots?

 

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Challenge: The close-up on the red doorknob is just one of many shots where the color red is predominant. Why does Shyamalan draw attention to that color? 

 

Director: Danny Devito

Challenge: How does the director make the teacher look menacing?

Nicolas Rogue

Challenge: How are the visions of the drowned child revealed?

 

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Challenge: How would you describe the camera movements in the beginning of the film?

Director: Milos Foreman

Challenge: Foreman uses many close-ups. What does he do that keeps it interesting?

 

Director:  Damien Chazelle

Challenge: What angles and distance shots are used to reveal the nature of the music teacher?

 

Director: Gary Ross

Challenge: How does Ross get the look and feel of a 1950’s television comedy?

 

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Challenge: How does Kurosawa achieve the dreamlike effects? Where does he use extreme long shots?

 

Director: Spike Lee

Challenge: Lee has a couple of tricky camera moves. Describe two of them. 

·      Pather Panchali (1955), Satyajit Ray

 

 

•  “Placing Shadows: Lighting Techniques for Video Production” by Chuck Gloman and Tom LeTourneau, 2000

 

•  “Lighting for TV and Film”, Third Edition 3rd Edition by Gerald Millerson, 2006

 

•  “Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers”, by Dennis Schaefer & Larry Salvato, 2013

 

•  “Visual Storytelling: How to Speak to Your Audience Without Saying a Word”, by Morgan Sandler, 2018

 

 

Jack Nicholson in ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’

Director: Milos Forman

 

Tom Hanks in ‘Forrest Gump’

Director: Robert Zemeckis

 

Meryl Streep in ‘Out of Africa’

Director: Sydney Pollack 

 

Philip Seymour Hoffman in ‘Capote’

Director: Bennett Miller

 

Natalie Portman in ‘Black Swan’

Director: Darren Aronofsky

 

Robert de Niro in ‘Taxi Driver’

Director: Martin Scorsese

 

Al Pacino in ‘Scent of a Woman’

Director: Martin Brest

 

Marlon Brando in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

Director: Elia Kazan

 

Viola Davis and Denzel Washington in ‘Fences’

Director: Denzel Washington

 

Lupita N’Yongo in ‘12 Years a Slave’

Director: Steve McQueen

 

Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman in ‘Kramer vs Kramer’

Director: Robert Benton

 

Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in ‘Silence of the Lambs’

Director: Jonathan Demme

Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson

The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson 

Devdas by Sanjay Leela Bhansali 

Ram Leela by Sanjay Leela Bhansali 

Edward Scissorhands by Tim Burton

Parasite by Bong Joon Ho

Children of Heaven by Majid Majidi 

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene (1920)

The Shining by Stanley Kubrick

The Neon Demon by Nicolas Winding Refin