Candlelight: Lighting The Old World (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Mar 27, 2017 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Featured, Industry, Lighting Tutorials, Lighting/Gaffing, Tips, Tutorials, Walk Throughs | 0 comments

The First Musketeer – the period web series I DPed in France in 2013 – gave me one of the biggest challenges in simulating candlelight. Almost every scene had candles in it (albeit fake, yet very convincing, LED ones) and it was always a struggle to make them appear to be shedding authentic light.

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Real Light: 5 Tips for Working with Practicals (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Mar 20, 2017 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Featured, Industry, Lighting Tutorials, Lighting/Gaffing, Tips, Tutorials, Walk Throughs | 0 comments

As the sensitivity and dynamic range of cameras has increased, practicals have become a more and more important and popular tool in the cinematographer’s arsenal. A practical is any light source that appears in the frame. It could be a fluorescent strip-light, a table lamp, car headlights, candles, a fireplace, an iPad, fairy lights, street lamps, a torch, a security light… any light that could be realistically found in the place where your scene is set.

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Serving Hard Light: 5 Ways to Light Through a Window (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Feb 27, 2017 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Featured, Lighting Tutorials, Lighting/Gaffing, Tips, Tutorials, Walk Throughs | 0 comments

The first step in lighting a daytime interior scene is almost always to blast a light through the window. Sometimes soft light is the right choice for this, but unless you’re on a big production you simply may not have the huge units and generators necessary to bounce light and still have a reasonable amount of it coming through the window. So in low budget land, hard light is usually the way we have to go.

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Audio Workflow: How To Sync Dialog Wild-Lines To Picture Using Revoice Pro (Video/Tutorial)

Posted by on Nov 6, 2015 in Featured, Tutorials, Video: Tutorial, Videos, Walk Throughs | 85 comments

In this featurette, Production Sound Mixer Jonah Guelzo gives you an inside look at one of his go-to tools to maximize the use of your on-set dialog recordings. At times, you can run into all sorts of problematic sound situations. By recording wild-lines, you allow yourself the versatility needed for later on in the mix.

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