Cinematic Lighting Tutorial: Step-by-step tutorial how to light a movie scene

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@SVThailand 2 месяца назад

You know what I like about this guy? His business model has him selling his instructional videos to the world's best film schools. He's an award-winning director and cinematographer. I don't know how these RU-vidrs who call themselves experts in filmmaking who are anything but have such gigantic RU-vid channels when his guys like this on here I wish you'd put out more RU-vid content and blow them away because he's actually a real teacher a true professional

@ChaseArrington Месяц назад

seems like he has a super low ego too - humble professional showing up for work today with his bes effort

@sdk4073 3 года назад

Really nice and underrated content. People are rarely showing the whole process of cinematic lighting in all its glory. Much appreciated.

@kahanisaaz 2 года назад

these were the kind of videos i had been searching for years. but never found such satisfactory videos. This is exactly what I had been looking for

@the_hbrl_effect 2 года назад

Hands down the best cinematic lighting tutorial I have seen on YT yet 🙂👍

@akshaykrishnanak2319 3 года назад

have never seen so much detailed lighting tutorial before.... I subscribed to the channel instantly...

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

Thank so you so much - I'm glad you found it useful!

@Andresvideo 3 года назад

@@FilmSkills if you worked a little more on the video tags, more people could find the video! ;)

@Andresvideo 3 года назад

I don't want to be the one who gives advice but doesn't tell anything, so I will give you some examples :D Interior lighting for video, lighting daylight interior, interior cinematography, how to light a scene, advanced cinematography techniques, how to light interior scene, how to light an interior day scene. You have 500 characters for the tags, make a good use of them and the views will come to quality content like this! (I was a user of FilmSkills long ago!)

@SBSChristianMedia 2 года назад

Sames

@pradiproykengar_artist8324 2 года назад

I'm also bro

@RicardoSensual 3 года назад

One of the best instructors I have seen on RU-vid regarding filmmaking contents. Thanks for great tutorials always.

@kenilev_photographer 2 месяца назад

this is rare to find on youtube

@ratt57 3 года назад

One of the most thorough and professional videos I've ever seen on RU-vid! Thank you!

@alifamin9524 3 года назад

Wow this is the most practical video ever for lighting a scene... Thank you so much for this... Simple yet with a lot of information... good job!

@ivankursacts Год назад

OMG! Amaizing piece of work and art! Thank you very much! Really professional and easy way to speak and teach.

@jeliyful 3 года назад

This is exactly how it is explained in film school, great work.

@SevenSpringsStudios Месяц назад

Excellent tuition thank you

@abdelilahachak5461 3 года назад

Best cinematography content on youtube!

@NIKONGUY1960 3 года назад

Really appreciated the details. This wasn't about a name brand type of light or piece of equipment but meat and potatoes filmmaking. Much appreciated.

@digitten 3 года назад

Gaffers tape is for attaching stuff to or marking your OWN equipment. Artist's Paper Tape is for taping stuff to walls and floors on location. Gaffers tape will remove paint and destroy the finish on hardwood floors. I use only the professional grade gaffers tape and have destroyed a trade show floor with it. Paper tape all the way. Otherwise, a great tutorial.

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

That's exactly right, but if you don't have paper tape, in a pinch you can tear off a piece of gaffers tape from the roll then stick and unstick it to your jeans a few times. This will make it much less sticky and won't pull off the paint or surface.

@joeladegboye3800 3 года назад

On of the best pieces of tutorials I've watched

@notgesund 3 года назад

great video. he was actually working on his laptop.😂

@mambaman3632 16 дней назад

Great tutorial. Thanks for posting this.

@hhh-gp9ip 3 года назад

Great great great one...

@babutechmbr4860 Год назад

Ultimate 🥏

@arightakil Год назад

Very informative Thanks 🤗

@rageshgovindan Год назад

Wow. What a great video for a beginner to learn and experiment . Thank you so much

@govindastyasairaviballa1125 Год назад

excellent

@horrorAk 3 года назад

Really helpful thanks a lot

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

You're welcome!

@sideeffectsstudios 3 года назад

That’s a hell of a tutorial man 👍

@cinecolorofficial Год назад

i am so grateful for this.this is amazing

@stevensvideosonyoutube Месяц назад

Commendable

@tronghoang1733 3 года назад

I love it. Tks u

@filmbyakiljoefield 3 года назад

This is extremely amazing, thank you sir for all your hard work!

@colewagner4149 3 года назад

Absolutely love these videos, learning as much from them as I've learned on set. Thank you!

@CostaSparrow 3 года назад

Incredibly detailed tutorial, thanks.

@karliemorris7318 2 года назад

Thank you for these vids sir

@elevenstars100 3 года назад

Amazing light video tutorial thank you!

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

You're very welcome!

@DrippyVisuals 3 года назад

Thanks for this! It was really informative !

@sanjeetswain7112 2 года назад

Great teacher 🙏

@Graphicwithkaran 3 года назад

U r a master

@GEAREDUPFILMS 3 года назад

Thanks for the video. Very good and something new that I’ve learned.

@ivanmartynov8499 2 года назад

Great tutorial !!! Thanks a lot !!!

@vipermjs 3 года назад

incredibly interesting and awesome

@BookBitesByAshish 2 года назад

your content is really under rated, thanks a million... (the actor typed a lot of things :D)

@OlgaKuznetsova 3 года назад

Love this! Thank you so much for sharing lighting technique in such detail!!

@RodieOsc 3 года назад

Thanks i had problems filming in open windows !!

@AwWa4ever 3 года назад

Wow

@albert.artphotography 3 года назад

Terrific!!! well done.

@leonarddai4998 3 года назад

lighting against big windows is very challenging, but thanks for this video

@hesamtavakoli1618 3 года назад

Awsome 🙂.please prepare this type of tutorials more in different situations

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

The full course at filmskills.com has 7 more scenes plus a dozen additional tutorials. www.filmskills.com/cinematic-lighting-master-course/

@danielhuang2488 3 года назад

great content

@YoungBlaze 3 года назад

This guy kinda looks like Tommy from Power. I LIKE IT

@stevestrasser6833 3 года назад

Just great! You should get more views!

@alphapyro360 3 года назад

Great, thanks for the content!

@eross21 3 года назад

wow it makes such a huge difference ! it just goes to show it’s not the camera your using, it’s the lighting your using. very impressive.

@kahanisaaz 2 года назад

lighting makes all the difference

@lazarkumaar9935 3 года назад

VERY USEFULL THANKS..

@reviewmirror 3 года назад

Thanks so much :-)

@kuddygone 3 года назад

I thought the original image already looked pretty good, but holy shmoley the final look was beautiful

@vanessamcprod 2 года назад

These re incredibly helpful! You’re such a great teacher and I appreciate how you show things nearly in real time, like actually setting up each piece of equipment.

@wulfrunian77 3 года назад

What a great tutorial this was. Completely demystifies so much of the lighting process. Very glad the RU-vid algorithm threw up your channel!

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

Awesome, thank you!

@cathyjones4702 Год назад

This guy must be answering one intense email thread

@electricdreamer 3 года назад

Producer: time's up, why are we still lighting?

@dissolution 3 года назад

This is a great video.

@Dale_Blackburn Год назад

Great video, now i just need 20.000$ to buy the lights and equipment for my short films!

@FilmSkills Год назад

You’re right, the gear is expensive. That’s why we rent it on a project-by-project basis.

@KedarRai 3 года назад

Which profile picture was shot sir? I am from Nepal 🇳🇵

@mukanowski Год назад

looks really nice, I woder if there was a way to use cutter flag to remove reflection of key light in windows that we can see at the beggining of the scene ?

@FilmSkills Год назад

If you notice, I did add the cutter in the final shot.

@sajeevsoman7813 3 года назад

❤️

@OfficialTornadoboy 3 года назад

Great tutorial/breakdown but I was wondering why you couldn’t position the diffusion frame at an angle to his face to create the shape and contrast rather than adding another light?

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

The choice wasn't to simply add more light, but to sculpt it. The first light source through the 4x4 frame was to create the key light and set the proper brightness for the actor's skin tones. The second side light was to sculpt the light to create a more three-dimensional feel. This is a technique I often use to make the lighting look more natural and less like a typical three-point lighting set-up.

@ekmedia6651 2 года назад

Could you have done the same with out the lightmeeter, just looking at the monitor?

@FilmSkills 2 года назад

I wouldn’t. You never know if the monitor is properly calibrated. If it’s too bright, you will be underexposing all your shots. If it’s too dark, you will be overexposing them.

@ekmedia6651 2 года назад

@@FilmSkills Damn, now i need to add another expencive thing to my gear ;)

@sf-mediafilm1784 3 года назад

Nice 🔥

@matthewjackson2656 3 года назад

should you blocking and filming in the same day?

@elnurvl 2 года назад

Chromatic aberration were noticable throughout the shot. Was it there deliberately or as an artifact created by Rokinon lenses?

@FilmSkills 2 года назад

Haha, no, I didn't intentionally add the chromatic aberration. The Rokinon DS series lenses are OK when you're working in the middle 2/3 of the aperture range, but anything more open than a 2.8 or closed more than an f11 gets a little sloppy. In this demo, you can really see the chromatic aberration in the high contrast areas like the edges of the windows. I also found that Rokinon's 14 and 16mm lenses are really soft when you're wide open. They definitely have their limitations, but considering how cheap they are for cine primes, the tradeoff is worth it, especially if you know the lenses' limitations.

@xkorbekx Год назад

can someone please explain what he means by increasing the contrast ratio by 1 and 1/2 stops to one? is that a general rule?

@obununu7059 2 года назад

What's the big led lighting panel? Does this compare as far as size? Nanlite LumiPad 25 Soft LED Light Panel

@harikrishnanaidu21 3 года назад

Super mama😘🥰🙏💕

@fockett 3 года назад

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@lionroots11 2 года назад

This is great! May I ask where you purchase the ND for the windows and what is the name of it? Thank you

@FilmSkills 2 года назад

You can buy rolls of gels from FilmTools. If you live in LA, also check out Expendables Recycler. They sell partial rolls at a big discount and that’s where I get most of mine.

@lionroots11 2 года назад

@@FilmSkills thank you I live in Indiana so I quess I won't be able to get it but thanks for reply your channel is very educational

@SVThailand 2 месяца назад

Newbie here so this is a legit question why can't you just use zoom on the lens instead of dollying in?

@hippopictures 3 года назад

Very helpful. Might you have a tutorial on f stop ratios and using a light meter? Btw, is the camera digital? Thanks for the tutorial.

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

It's funny you mention this, because I just released a video on f-stops and using a light meter today. Here's the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AFKI1GkoGk0.html

@LiYuanChea 3 года назад

At 2:00 Can you explain how did you pull focus? I can´t even see the focus ring on the lens move. Thanks!

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

Hey Byron, I didn’t rack the focus. The subject was within the depth of field throughout the entire move.

@hiyorisarugaki1830 2 года назад

there are over 800 shots in a movie. That means doing this, 800 times

@FilmSkills Год назад

That’s right. Which is why you see an army of people in the credits. And this was a simple lighting setup.

@roehaus1 2 года назад

Excellent video! Two questions. What was the target aperture setting on the camera... and does the buckling of the ND film when you hang it cause any problems as far as flaring the background or causing unwanted reflections?

@FilmSkills 2 года назад

Ideally, I wanted an open aperture close to 2.8 to achieve a shallow depth of field but since I did not have someone to pull focus, I closed the aperture a bit to maintain focus while I dollied in on the subject. I was able to reduce the strength of the ND filter in front of the lens when I closed the aperture to keep the same exposure. Regarding your second question, you do need to be careful when applying ND gel the to windows. The wind can blow it around and you can catch reflections from light sources.

@TheIQProductions 3 года назад

Great video, one thing I am confused about and wondered if you could clear up ...If you opened your iris all the way as suggested at 6:40 (which I think is 1.5 on your lens?) but measured your key light to be a little over 5.6?, your key was 4 and 1/2 stops overexposed and it looks like that? seems strange because it looks properly exposed to me. Thanks!

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

You’re exactly right, however I chose to open my aperture all the way to achieve a shallow depth of field, and that would have over exposed the shot. But I used a neutral density filter instead to achieve the correct exposure. That way, I got the shallow depth of field I wanted all while properly exposing the shot.

@jaydel3 Год назад

I feel like I'm too impatient to do any of this. I just want to shoot and go.

@FilmSkills Год назад

That may be, but if your production doesn’t look good, the audience may be too impatient to watch it.

@SVThailand 2 месяца назад

And now you know why actors get stand-ins on productions...

@fotovideomojica8876 3 года назад

Sony FX9 camera?

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

Sony FS-5

@fotovideomojica8876 3 года назад

@@FilmSkills Thanks

@charger3x 3 года назад

Waoo

@youtubetv3474 3 года назад

At 3:20 isn’t it possible just to reduce the iso to get a good exposure instead of the neutral filter?

@FilmSkills 3 года назад

You could, but I only use the ISO for exposure as a last resort. Keep in mind that the camera’s imaging sensor has been manufactured to operate in it’s sweet spot, which is known as the “native ISO.” Increasing or decreasing your ISO does not let more light into the camera lens, it simply adjusts the brightness of the image after it’s been captured. That’s why, using a neutral density filter (or aperture) to alter the light before it reaches the imaging sensor will produce a better image.

@youtubetv3474 3 года назад

@@FilmSkills Thanks! Perfect explanation, I get it now

@superultragiggachigga 2 года назад

What if you didn’t have the ND filters for the windows? Could you still make this scene happen? A scene I want to shoot is set up very similar to the layout of the house your using, so I’m curious.

@FilmSkills 2 года назад

If I didn’t use the ND filter, I would have to close the aperture to achieve the same exposure. But in doing so, I would lose my shallow depth of field. The whole purpose for using the ND filter was to open the aperture specifically to get a shallow depth of field. The ND filters were then used to dial in the exposure.

@superultragiggachigga 2 года назад

@@FilmSkills ah okay, thank you! Definitely something I’ll have to look into getting. Never knew they made them until this video. Probably the best tutorial I’ve ever seen btw.

@SitinprettyProductions 2 месяца назад

Could you put an nd filter directly on the lens of the camera for the same effect?

@alessandroseba5083 2 года назад

By the end of the video Justin has : hacked facebook, programmed a new chess artificial intelligence, made big money investing on bitcoins and wrote a new best seller "the man among the lights" Great video by the way, thank you.