Why Cinematographers Pick this Lighting the Most
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2020
- In this video I’ll show why cinematographers pick one lighting style the most. A lighting style incorporates multiple elements. How you light the face is the most important. Watch the video to see what's the most popular style today.
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Why Films use these 5 Cinematographic Styles
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Not this video, but in all of film TH-cam. “I’m going to talk to you about cinematic lighting” as they all sit in near total darkness with rgb led on the wall behind them 😂
No kidding whats up with that? It's like they all do the same thing yet think they are unique and then expect us to listen to their advice!
You forget: I'm going to teach you how to get great "cinematic" images, and they go wide open at 1.2 on little Chinese lenses, blurring basically everything :D And the funny thing is that, in 95% of the cases, no cinematographer ever lit like this!
You're a Michelangelo. Artistic vision and technical brilliance in total harmony. You're going to object, but this is deserved praise, buddy. Fantastic work, as always.
The like button is 45° to the right, loved that line. Lol
“Current fashion in underexpose” a.k.a. “everything is too damn dark so you won’t see mistakes and flaws”
HBO wants to know your location
@@Nerdhaunt it really depends on the DP though, camerawork is great throughout True Detective series for example.
@OohBuntu In short - Netflix lol
When I’m watching something from Netflix I can see fine, but something from a regular tv channel looks like shit. The quality of the average TV channel is too shitty for this underexposed trend. There aren’t even any 4K channels on my TV.
This Trend drives me nuts. Budget or not, usually innovative Filmmakers find away around the budget limitations. Hell, that why we have Film Noir. I get why we have that trend in Low Budget films, that I don't fault them for. Game of Thrones or the Marvel Netflix shows. No excuse for that.
Great video. Well explained. Looking forward for more videos on lighting... Thank you so much....
This is so helpful, lighting is the most powerful tool that a cinematographer can use to really improve every aspect of their film, whether it be for a beautiful visual or a story telling device. I think the gordon willis look stands out alot and I find modern dp's struggle trying to get that look and end up with under exposed footage.
Wow. This was just great. I learned so much. Thank you for posting this.
thanks man, this sums up almost everything
This was excellent and very clear. It should be shown to any production member unclear of what a lighting ratio is how it is achieved and just why there are various costs in achieving an intended production "look."
Great video, thanks!
Love your channel and videos
Honestly man love your channel
This video was perfect. It explains both he what and the why beautifully
Your videos are really informative. Thank you for taking the time to put them together.
This Is super cool! Again good job my friend!
Great commentary and observations.
This is one of my favourites, that you've done.
yeah this is brilliantand brilliantly simple.
Completely
This is the video I needed!!! TNX!
Non of the photographers I know talk about this at all. Thank you so much for making all wonderful videos. 10/10
Excellent analysis! I paint and draw and all of these techniques are directly applicable for subject lighting purposes.
nicely explained thanks
This is awesome thank you
Get the photogenic actors. No kidding. Harsh but true.
Thankyoubso muchhhhhhh pls make more videos on lighting i have to understand lighting thoroughly
Excellent summary and explanations. This is a great example of why, as a photographer, I subscribe to your channel. Film lighting was my earliest lighting inspiration. And remains my greatest. I’m also yet to find a photographer who discusses online, such cross-over topics in such detail. I greatly appreciate your channel & videos! Stay well.
Great video.
The top 6 Exposure Tools for cinematography - shows you the best tools for contrast ratio th-cam.com/video/J4BbGkKyQTU/w-d-xo.html
5:15 What german expressionist film are these images from?
better than it needs to be. Thank you
Is there a video explaining a the Paramount lighting setup? I’d love to make a video in that style. I’m familiar with Rembrandt lighting, but didn’t know there were different studio styles. Learning so much, thanks.
thanks
Underexposed sounds like a bad idea. For a dark mood I would lower lighting contrast, expose normally for middle gray and bring it down in post to control grain/noise and lack of detail, crucial if shooting on film. I think this trend is simply to stay away from that happy sitcom/TV commercial look. Anyway: thanks for sharing your great knowledge and understanding!
Excellent as always, what’s the movie at the end?
Excellent video! And it´s true! Commonly in the low or zero budget productions that we do, this is the best choice to have a decent cinematography.
1:15 , I feel personally attacked :(
Lmao
Chill 😂 that was the most idiotic sentence ever said by any cinematographer.
If we could light the inside beauty, we would. Sorry 😂
@@jaynathwani8563 lemme just fix that sentence for you: s/idiotic/truthful
Lol that was absolute nonsense
So many tons of important information in one Video, that I don't manage to write down so quickly...
Thank you so much my friend !
Really serious content !
P.S. if you invest enough time for learning cinematography from *free* internet, I don't think you need to go to the university
Fascinating info.
Thank you so much.
New video, amazing stuff. Thank you!
Always good stuff
Your tutorial has help me create an amazing short film showing now on my TH-cam channel
Nice that explain a lot also on why now movies look like the same (especially on Netflix)
Is the 1 stop darker background 1stop darker than the key light or the fill light?
Can you explain what 1 stop for backlight?
Great info!👍
great lighting breakdown. what is the last film (at 6:26)?
Great stuff as usual. What movie is that at 1:48? She is truly stunning and the costumes and set design are fabulous.
What movie is it?
Grace Kelly in Hitchcock's "Rear Window"
@wolfcrow , I have a technical question. How do you measure in camera the number of stops across the face and then the number between the foreground and the background? Is there a camera feature like zebras or color checking? Or is this done with light meters or some other tool?
This should help th-cam.com/video/J4BbGkKyQTU/w-d-xo.html
I'm really curious what film was shown at 2:50 (and just before it)
I do my lighting like I do my sound. I don't think mechanically about it. I just go by feel; not to say I never use mechanics. I do resort to them if I get stuck in my creativity.
nice one. very short but packed.
Thank you. What is the name of the movie that you had at the end of this video, please?
Network (1976) ; Sydney lumet
@@arvinsloane6715 thank you very much
Thanks for all that great info! I really dislike how so many newer movies have WAY-TOO-DARK exposure.
Whoa. I learned a lot in a short amount of time.
Yes.me too
Your videos are fire
@ 2:15 what movie?
Whats the film @ 5:19 ?
hi!!!what is 2 stops and 1 stop???
is that in the camera settings???
1 stop up - doubling the amount of exposed light and 1 stop down - halving the amount of exposed light. So 2 stops means 4 times more light.
Hay ...I am an aspiring film actor currently doing theatre. I have an oval shape face, without many cuts. That does mean it's not photogenic because the light might bounce back. So, what would you suggest actors like me. Should we start preparing for typecast characters? Or we have some hope for our versatility?
I just checked your acting out. Wouldn’t worry about it. Just practice your craft. Especially with others. Meaning, don’t just film yourself doing monologues by yourself, but acting with others so people may have a chance to see how you work with others. It’s easy to be a good actor at home by yourself. Imagine all the talented singers in the world singing right now in their showers that we will never hear. So get out there, put yourself out there. You’re not going to get into a big budget film right away or maybe ever. You may not get paid. You may be in films that will never be seen. But you may also go very far. You won’t know if you’re not out there after it. Lots and lots of indie film makers today. Seek them out and follow casting calls. As far as looks. Again don’t worry about it, show people what you can do. When someone makes me tear up and feel strong emotions that’s The person(S) I’m going to hire. I would advise only this. Get a hair cut and a proper shave, unless you are going for that lower tier hence man, bad guy look. That’s not an insult. That’s just what I see. Keep in mind that not all film makers are looking for “pretty” people. I cast based on a certain look yes, but I am looking for several things. Pretty is not on that list. Anyway just make yourself stand out and Show em what you got good luck.
You just put words on my feelings with recent movies/tv shows : they are underexposed ! THat's right and i do not like that feeling at all.
how can you tell the numerical difference in stops with contrast ratios? like how do you know the key/fill side are 2 stops apart, etc?
Perhaps I'm giving an overly simplistic answer but if it were me i would simply point my camera and see in my meter or wave form comparing subject to background
light meter
Thank you
What do you mean when you say "stops" referring to lighting? How do we measure the stops of light when we light a scene?
its photography 101. there’s a lot of videos regarding stops.
@@rmrfboy I understand what stops mean concerning aperture, shutter speed, iso, etc... But I don’t get how you can measure the difference between stops on one side of the face and the other side.
@@marcom.3554 basically you do a couple of light readings on both side of the face using a light meter.
Where's the Gordon Willis video? I'll sign up just for that.
I like that you're trying to cover so much but it's a bit all over the place. I had to laugh that modern cinematographers under-expose by accident because they don't understand HDR. No a lot of effort goes into making sure that what the viewer sees is what is intended. They 'underexpose' because they like it, it is a trend that signifies that this is serious, dark subject matter, for better or for worse.
That's funny. It should be 'cinematographer by proxy', because a lot of decisions are taken by the suits. It might also be a strategy to sell more HDR TVs. "Why can't I see Ozark so well?" "Because you need to buy an HDR TV."
@@wolfcrow Ozark looks good on no SDR TVs. I'm watching it right now. There's definitely a problem with standards these days.
While I agree that it’s far more likely a creative choice which adds drama to a scene and is in rejection of the older style of high key lighting which seems tacky and lazily lit to modern viewers, as well as the fact that digital allows us to now shoot into shadow with far less noise/grain than when shooting film, I think the two of you are glancing over the colour space of the viewing medium as well. High budget films are colour graded using very precise and wide dynamic range monitors, then for cinema are downgraded somewhat where they lose a slight amount of detail which adds contrast, and for streaming are often viewed on sRGB colour profile screens which add significant contrast to the image which wasn’t initially intended. Even looking at the difference between Rec 709 and sRGB in a camera monitor you can see a huge difference.
That’s not even getting into the compression/codec used when compressing for streaming either. So much data is altered in the process.
Thanks,
Pls Make video about Dynamic symmetry...
Hi what is dynamic symmetry?
@@jv8studios Advanced version, than Rule of Thirds & Golden Ratio in Composition.
What’s the movie at 5:35?
Inglorious basterds
Explain any one film
......ONE CINEMATOGRAPHER TOLD LIGHTING IS THE CREATIVE PART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY......THANKS FOR THE BRILLIANT STUFF
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Underexposure - oh gosh, thanks for mentioning it. Also flat lighting, as if the infant cinematographers have forgotten that log files were meant to be corrected. Painful!
You are indian?
That feeling when you recognise most of the movies used in this vid.
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Sooooo..... “if you’re not photogenic (ugly), then don’t be an actor.” ...... not a sure about this one.
whats funny is watching alot of horror you realize there are a lot of traditionally unattractive people that get alot of work. because they have a look that moves a charecter... its really a role out there for everyone if you know ur limits. which all sounds bad but it is what it is. Forrest whiticker has visual issues but he is one of top tier black actors but im sure at some point he realized he wasnt going to be a sex symbol.
downvote for the bullshit about cinematographers under exposing because they don't understand tv. Give me a fucking break, this is all these people do. They own tv's, obviously they know how they work.
What do you mean why ?
Ironically ....Anyone ( arguably your viewers) who needs to ask that... has to learn a lot. A lot more than cinematography....
Used to like this channel but then I show this to my faculties in film school and they all laughed over his shallow explanation, which is more technical and less aesthetic.
A good person looks good in any lighting is the reason why we don't have normal faces on the big screen.
Easy for the professors to criticize. But, of course, critics never are creators - their acid analysis etches away their childlike joy.
In film school, you can get many hours of lessons about light and technical or aesthetic aspects. This is just a 6 minute TH-cam video about the basics with a lot of information and great examples. For me this is much better. I don't do this kind of filming. I just want to know how it's done and use the knowledge when watching films and probably at some point in the future with my own camera.
There is a long ongoing discussion if it is better to go to film school for a couple of years or if it's better to learn the basics and start creating, leaning by doing and by working on real film projects together with more experienced people.
That one statement made me a lot insecure about my career as an actor. I have been working really hard to improve my emotional ability. But in future I might not get job because of my face😒... don't know what to say...maybe actors like me will be typecast.... It's not that I am a fat person, I have normal BMI but my face is oval and guess that can't reflect light.
@@amartyabhattacharya5016 All that means is, you have to decide your audience. There will be Khans and Kapoors to screw your interview. But Time's changing. We don't rely on the TV screen now, hundred of platforms are coming with a fresh start and sure they'll interrupt there even because we are biting out from their bread. 😅 but now they can't stop us from that. So find a stage where they promote "ugly faces" as you've said... But to me, Normal real life people.
@@AnandaGarden I thoroughly support this idea that years of experience and stereotype may have made them over judgemental. But for this video, I see the same stereotype information. The thing is, you can't setup light just anywhere if your actor is good looking 🤣😂 I lost my interest by that statement.
A cinema channel that doesn t remember Morricone doesn t deserve to be followed
Very rarely can I be offended by a reference, but you put Benioff and Minute Weiss, aka Dumb and Dumber (now on Netflix welfare producing nothing and the world thanks the universe for the respite) with an episode in Season 8, enshrined until civilization ends as the worst Written and Directed videos of any type since moving pictures have or ever will be produced.
It shows how important that if you are stealing the genius of RR Martin, or any other genius, treat him with respect and credit him when necessary, because it was only he that made that whole show, when it WAS good, good. He didn't have trouble writing the end, Dumb and Dumber disrespected him and oh boy was his revenge extraordinary. All he had to do was say he was having writer's block. Brilliant.
I get YOU put it as an example of garbage or incompetence, but boy, you swung for the bleachers with that one. There should be a course just with the end of Season 7 and all of Season 8 as examples of what not to do.
I apologize, but Dumb and Dumber destroyed an IP so badly I'm still enraged by their handling of the whole thing. Even Disney fired them...the feces halo is still great. Not one of the actors or actresses from GoT has been in a successful movie since Season 8 (which was really half a season, Season 7 and 8 would have been one season, hoping Martin would write the stuff so they would continue to look (sic) like geniuses.)
Imagine blowing the writing directing and cinematography so badly no one will go to a movie your actors starred in after! Talk about a feces halo that hits everyone and everything. Bravo, Dan and Dave... Dumb and Dumber