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What do we program our Color Temperature meter with if we need to use it for balancing purposes? |
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DAYLIGHT OR TUNGSTEN FILM |
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What are its 2 modes when we do this? |
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LIGHT BALANCE, COLOR CORRECTION |
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What are our 2 strategies to prevent overexposure in HDV? |
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(One deals with our choice of lights, one deals with our choice of iris setting). |
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How do we soften our HDV image during close-ups? |
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DIFFUSION AS CLOSE TO TALENT DIFFUSION/FILTER ON CAM IN CAMERA SETTINGS |
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What filter did we use in this class to soften the face but hopefully leave some sparkle in the eye? |
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What does a filter factor of 2 mean? |
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What 2 extremes must we avoid when using the WFM? |
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What would be an example of each of those 2 extremes? |
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TOO MUCH LIGHT, TOO MUCH SHADOW |
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What do the letters on a vectorscope graticule represent? |
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PRIMARY & SECONDARY COLORS |
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What does an “illegal” red look like on a vectorscope? |
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If the same f5.6 incident light illuminates a black card, an18% gray card, and a white card, what would the spot reading of each of the cards be like and why? |
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F5.6 FOR 18% GRAY F2.8 FOR BLACK F11 FOR WHITE |
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What are some of the things an 18% gray card represents? |
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ZONE 5 IRIS SETTING AVG OF LIGHT BOUNCE (½ LIGHT/DARK) |
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If your film or digital camera has a latitude of 6 stops evenly divided, what would be the range of that latitude if your iris setting is at an f5.6? |
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What type of meter readings do you take if you’re using the Zone System? |
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If you paint a big Zone System scale on a wall and light each Zone evenly, what are 2 ways to find the iris setting for the perfect photo of it? |
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In that photo the iris setting represents which zone? |
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If we took a spot meter reading of an object, and we got an f11 reading, where would we place the f11 on our Zone System “slide rule” if we wanted the object to come back looking like Zone 5 gray? |
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Where would we place that f11 if we wanted the object to look like Zone 8 white? |
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What would we shoot our photo at in both examples? |
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When we are using our spot meter to find a “reflectance reference” in our set, we are looking for an f-stop that will be 3 things. What are those 3 things, and how do they help us in cinematography? |
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ZONE 5 OBJECT, IRIS SETTING, LATITUDE DIVIDE LINE |
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What does “placement and fall” mean? |
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PLACE ON TOP OF ZONE & LATITUDE ACCORDINGLY |
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If you are unable to match f-stops between a wide shot and a close-up, what can you match so that the lighting in your wide shot will edit nicely with the lighting in your close-up? |
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CONTRAST RATIOS KEY+FILL / FILL = CONTRAST RATIO |
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If you are “racing the sun” during an afternoon exterior scene, what do you do with your talent’s light as the sky gets darker so that the brightness ratios will match for all the shots in your entire scene? |
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Can this same strategy be applied to a day interior with a large window if the sky is in the shot? |
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YES… SCRIM DOWN & OPEN IRIS |
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What 2 strategies can you take to make your interior shots look more 3 dimensional and interesting? |
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LAYERING OF FORE/MID/BACKGROUND AS MANY ZONES AS POSSIBLE |
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What is the Zone System guideline for day interior backgrounds? |
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How about for night interior backgrounds? |
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What is the Zone System guideline for bare burning bulbs in a shot? |
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How about the Zone System guideline for creating silhouettes? |
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How about making a day interior window read believably? |
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Where should your moonlight key light be placed in order to make your scene look most believable and dramatic as a night exterior? |
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HIGH & ¾ BEHIND (CREATES “KICKER”) |
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What Zone should you place a spot reading of the shadow side of your talent’s faces in that same night exterior? |
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What 3 ways can we set the levels on a lighting control console? |
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CHANNEL FADER DATA KEYPAD TRACKBALL |
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What is the ampacity of a leprecon box? |
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What general rules must we follow for green screen filming? |
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LIGHT GREEN SCREEN EVENLY NO GREEN SPILL ON TALENT LIGHT TALENT SEPERATELY 1 STOP BRIGHTER AVOID TALENT SHADOWS ON GREENSCREEN MATCH TALENT LIGHT W/ SCENE |
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What are the power connections like for our 4K Xenon? |
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240 VOLTS 3 HOTS & GROUND |
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Where does the hot spot for that light begin? |
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What 2 ways can we lower the intensity of our Xenon? |
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ND GEL, 10K SCRIMS W/ CARDELINNI |
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What 3 pieces of information must we have in order to use our charts to determine a good estimate for the ideal sized key light for our scene? |
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ASA, F-STOP, (CALCULATE FOOTCANDLE) DISTANCE |
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There will be 3 questions about some of the movies we watched in class and why we watched them. Please study your Keynote slides about each of the movies we viewed in order to study for these 3 questions. |
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LECTURE 2-6 The rest is up to you! Buena Suerte/Good Luck! |
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