CHAPTER 8 ESSENTIALS

• Lighting for film is an art and a science, creating the illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat screen.
• Exposure is governed by luminance, light intensity, the right exposure index, and the latitude of your image-capture medium—as well as your creative choice about the best f-stop.
• White light comes in two varieties: sunlight, which has a color temperature of 5500 K, and indoor light, which has a color temperature of 3200 K. When you set your white balance, you ensure that what you see as white light will look white on-screen and that the colors will be accurate.
• As a cinematographer, you have many lighting tools to choose from, whether you are outdoors or indoors, as well as different media to change or modify the lighting result.