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Advance your creative skills at ARRI Academy’s hands-on camera classes in Burbank and Brooklyn!

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Emerging filmmakers looking to crew-up, discover the basic elements of camera composition and lighting design through ARRI Creative Tools? Our NEW 2-day Block, Light & Shoot workshop is for you. Register for November Brooklyn BLS class, Nov. 9-10, here: http://arri.academy/Block-Light-Shoot-Brooklyn Register for December Burbank BLS class, Dec. 7-8, here: https://arri.academy/Block-Light_Shoot_Burbank-Dec Experienced Cinematographers, Operators, ACs, DITs… …

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‘Quick Change’ Lighting: Includes 9 Tips for the Time-Saving Technique by Paolo Dy

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In the cinematographer’s ideal world, we would get every piece of equipment we asked for, and production managers would give us half a day to prepare each setup. However, independent filmmaking reality dictates that we’re more likely to find ourselves four hours behind schedule at 8 p.m. with fifteen setups to go – and that’s… …

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“Lighting for Film: Keep It Simple” by Michael Corbett

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To improve your tennis game, play with better tennis players. I am not sure where I first heard this, but it was one of the most important things I’ve learned about improving “my game” as a director of photography. For me, the better tennis players are directors of photography I have had the opportunity to… …

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“There Is No Such Thing As Video Lighting” by M. David Mullen, ASC

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Pictured above: Kate Bosworth in “90 Minutes in Heaven”. There is no such thing as video lighting, nor DV lighting, digital lighting, HD lighting – anymore than there is Fuji lighting versus Kodak lighting. I mean, what exactly is “film lighting” when that term covers the look of movies from Singin’ in the Rain to… …

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Conversation with Peter Stein, ASC

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Exclusive interview conducted Nash Choudhury Peter Stein, ASC has been shooting films in one way or another for over thirty years working on a wide variety of films from horror classics to children’s comedies to incisive documentaries. Beginning his career in cinematography with one of the highest grossing films of 1981, Friday the 13th Part… …

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Exclusive Interview | A Conversation with Uta Briesewitz, ASC: Episodics and Features

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  STUDENTFILMMAKERS: Your career as a cinematographer includes a wonderfully diverse body of work. What are some of the differences between filming styles for feature films, TV movies, episodics, and documentaries? Uta Briesewitz, ASC: In feature films for theatrical release you can live more in wide shots since the big screen of a movie theatre… …

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Exclusive Interview | A Conversation with Hiro Narita, ASC

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  Hiro Narita, ASC has a filmography that includes over seventy-three titles ranging from feature films to episodic television series to documentaries. He is known for his work on “Never Cry Wolf” (1983), “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” (1989), “The Rocketeer” (1991), “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (1991) and “The Scorpion King” (2002). Narita… …

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Book Reviews | “Lighting for Cinematography: A Practical Guide to the Art and Craft of Lighting for the Moving Image”

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New Book on Lighting Written by David Landau While there are some great books with interviews of big time cinematographers out there, there are few books immediately applicable to what beginning cinematographers are facing on limited budget shoots. “Lighting for Cinematography: A Practical Guide to the Art and Craft of Lighting for the Moving Image,”… …

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“Can LED Replace Traditional Fresnels?” By Sherwin Lau

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At our film school, the Creative Media Institute for Film and Digital Arts, traditional tungsten Fresnel fixtures have been the main lighting instruments in the classroom and on set. We do have some HMI’s and Kino’s but the tungsten Fresnels are the main tools we use.  We need these lighting solutions to withstand the kind… …

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CINEMATOGRAPHY | “Lights and Cameras Changing Our World” By Dean Goldberg

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CINEMATOGRAPHY Lights and Cameras Changing Our World By Dean Goldberg I’ve been a full-time academic now for a dozen years—and being older than time itself, I spent a lifetime before academia, as a filmmaker. I can remember all the way back to my film school days in the late 70s, learning how to load an… …

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LIGHTING | “Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?” By William Donaruma

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“Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?” Now Let’s Think Outside the Box By William Donaruma   It depends on the tunnel and how it plays in the story. We can get caught up in motivated light sources within a scene. Where is the window or practical light source? What time of day… …

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StudentFilmmakers Magazine | Exclusive Interview with Hiro Narita, ASC

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Hiro Narita, ASC “When I started as a cameraman, I did every project that came along my way, horror and exploitation films included. Choice was not on my mind. I needed experience. So, one thing led to another. But eventually, I realized that a cameraman could be type-casted. That is when I made a decision… …

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