Video Gear: Lighting

Learn about the latest and greatest lighting equipment for video production, including LEDs, portable lighting, and solutions for textured, pure white, and pure black backdrops.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Lighting with LEDs

• Lighting with LEDs
• Benefits of LED lighting
• Intensity and color temperature
• Accessories on a budget

2. Creating Textured Backdrops Using Only Lights, Part 1

• Creating affordable textured backdrop with lights
• It’s all about creating patterns
• Creating a hand-cut gobo
• Using a pattern backdrop
• Creating a gobo with a transparency projector
• Using a projector to create custom backdrops

3. Creating Textured Backdrops Using Only Lights, Part 2

• Creating a textured backdrop with lights
• Using precut metal gobos
• Ordering your own gobos
• Using a DJ projector to create gobos
• Creating backdrops with effects glass
• Adding a virtual gobo with Tiffen Dfx

4. Lighting with the Lume Cube

• What is the Lume Cube?
• Unboxing the Lume Cube
• Controlling the Lume Cube
• Unique features of the Lume Cube

5. How Do I Shoot a Pure White Backdrop?

• How do I shoot a pure white backdrop?
• Using a paper roll
• Using a portable backdrop
• Lighting a cyc wall
• Gear overview

6. Using Small Lights

• Small lights
• Battery-operated lights
• Lowel Blender
• Lowel portable spotlight

7. How Do I Shoot a Pure Black Backdrop?

• How do I shoot a pure black backdrop?
• Using a duvetyne or fabric
• Using a portable backdrop system
• Shooting a black studio
• Gear overview