Essential Lighting Skills and Techniques for Video and Content Creators

This class is a beginner's introduction to lighting principles and techniques to help you develop your own visual style. Whether you are a new filmmaker working in documentary, narrative, or creating online video content, this class will offer you new tools and techniques to enhance the lighting of your visuals.  

Follow along as cinematographer Lucas Gonzalez guides you through his process of lighting techniques, favorite tools, and setups, which you can exercise at home.

You will learn the following: 

• How to create unique lighting looks for videos.
• Utilizing and controlling natural lighting in any space you find yourself in.
• The differences between creating a beauty light and a standard 45-degree keylight. 
• How to use the 3 point lighting system to your advantage.
• The principles of color theory and the best ways to mix RGB lighting in your backgrounds and videos. 
• Essential apps, lights, and tools to use as lighting resources. 

Lucas Gonzalez is an artist and cinematographer from Colombia, based in New York City. Exploring the complexities of queerness, race, class, and migration, their documentary and narrative work has been screened at Newsfest, Tribeca, Inside Out, DC Black Film Festival, Blackstar, Jacob Burns, CultureStrike, among others. They are also recognized for their commercial work with companies like Vogue, Spotify, Skillshare, Tidal, Complex, Verizon, and TinyGiant.

• Intro
• Shaping Natural Light
• Three Setups using one Light
• Three Point Lighting
• Working with RGB Lights
• Practicals in the Frame
• Tips & Tricks
• Class Project
• Outro