CAN TV trainer Eric shows you simple and effective lighting tips to enhance your next studio production. For more information on training classes at CAN TV email training@cantv.org.
You didn't take camera positions/angles into consideration in your lighting plan. You also need to consider which way your participants will be facing. Will the host be speaking directly to camera? Which camera? I would use your LED panels on dimmers 11, 18,16, 17 as overall fill lights and use fresnels as key lights. You should invest in an 8-foot long wooden pole with a metal hook on the end so you can tap barn doors into place without having to climb the ladder. Speaking as someone with a few decades of network lighting experience.
Really? You want to lay that harshness on us, a mere public cable access center whose workshops are aimed at novices just entering into the world of television production on a shoestring? I am my own worst critic, and have identified way more in this workshop that could have been taught better than what you are saying, and which will go into our efforts when we produce an updated and better version. I don't appreciate grandstanding and "I-know-better-than-you"-ism. And as far as using a pole with a hook to adjust barn doors: lights frequently need more than just barn door adjustment; they need to be aimed as well. We're not going to contrive some device to loosen the yoke knobs and grasp the instrument to manipulate it from the ground any year soon; you'd need a masseuse after doing it that way.
@@CANTVTraining Good lighting practice is the same whether you are at NBC, Paramount, cable access or a junior college with zero budget. Being a "mere" cable access studio is no excuse for bad practices. A lighting director needs to know the camera positions and angles. If you consider that to be "harshness" and "grandstanding" and it makes you this defensive then maybe a cable access studio is the best place for you.
@@testpattern701 Yikes, dude. Watch your ego. Some of us are here to learn, and because we value the community mission of CAN TV. You, on the other hand, appear to be here to bolster your ego and insult the organization. Gross.
@@CANTVTraining Not joining in with the criticism but just for everyone's knowledge, there do exist "pole-operated" fixtures that allow you to pan/tilt/spot/flood with a pole that hooks into a knob. As far as I know, Arri is currently the only manufacturer that still makes some lights available with this mechanism. I have also worked with ones made by De Sisti. It's pretty nice once you have your instruments hung and roughed in since it means you don't need a ladder or lift to make adjustments.
