Lighting Design for Video Productions

Learn how to raise the production value of your videos with important but simple lighting tools and techniques.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Why lighting is essential

1. Lighting Fundamentals

• The role of lighting in telling a story
• Lighting and location working together to create an exterior scene
• Lighting and location working together to create an interior scene
• How appropriate lighting can enhance your video productions
• Natural light
• High-key and low-key lighting

2. Objectives of Lighting

• Directing the viewer's attention with lighting
• How does lighting reveal or obscure subjects and objects?
• Using light to add depth
• Shifting the light to heighten drama
• Shifting the light to add richness

3. Lighting Techniques

• Controlling contrast
• Working with natural light for exterior scenes
• Working with natural light for interior scenes
• Mixing natural and artificial light
• The potential of practical light

4. Course Summary

• Scouting your location
• Applying what you've learned to your own productions
• Know the story you need to tell
• What lighting style is best for your story?