New Course: Fundamentals of Lighting for Single-Person Interview & Talking Head Video

Lighting

June 18, 2023

Find the new course over at https://school.learnlightandsound.com

We've just released a new course! This course covers the fundamentals of lighting for single-person interviews and talking-head videos. We cover the basic concepts of lighting, walk through the materials you'll need, and– finally– lead you through three different hands-on lighting design demonstrations. At the end of the course you'll be equipped with all the conceptual tools and experience you need to beautifully light your talking-head interviews with ease!

Sound interesting and helpful to you? Learn with us over at school.learnlightandsound.com.

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we have a new course that covers the fundamentals of lighting for single person interview or talking head Style videos now lighting sometimes feels like a mysterious domain that only directors of Photography know how to navigate but in this course we lay out many of the fundamental concepts and practical techniques you can use to find your unique style of lighting and create lighting designs that Inspire your audience and helps you make more engaging memorable videos so we cover a bunch of the fundamentals in this course we cover hard versus soft lighting when to use each color temperature and how to use that not only to get great looking skin tones but also as effects and to create mood we talk about exposure also to create mood and to get the exposure right so that everything looks great we talk about the types of Lights the different Technologies the form factors of different lights and also the roles that they play like key lights or as fill lights or as effects lights will help you choose the lights that will help you get the lighting designs that you want to make we talk a little bit about rigging stands booms things like that we also talk about modifiers which allow you to block cut balance or even diffuse the light and then we bring all of that information together and have several practical lighting design demonstrations where we walk you through step by step how to create that lighting design and translate that into the types of designs you want to make now there are a few things we don't cover in this course I want to be super clear about that so they don't kind of hope that this has it and then buy it and then realize it doesn't we aren't covering two-person or more interviews in this course that'll be a future course also we're not doing any sort of special effects lighting techniques anything like that and we're also not covering in depth some of the unique things about outdoor lighting those will all come in future courses online courses can be a little tricky because what do you do when you have a question well when you enroll in the course you get direct email access to me I'll help you answer any questions about lighting so you can get up and running and making great videos in no time so if this sounds like something that would be helpful for you we'd love to have have you enroll in the course over at school.learnelightonsound.com there's a link Down Below in the meantime get out there and make some great videos we'll talk to you soon [Music] thank you