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Rick Wise
January 25, 2010 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Creating a Lighting Class

For other syllabi, do a GoogleSearch for Lighting Class Syllabus. Lots of posts.

How to design the course? I presume you have the experience. So imagine teaching your younger brother or sister from the ground up. The more visual examples you can show students (still pictures and clips) the more they will understand and possibly learn.

The first semester will be the hardest one for you, because you will constantly be reinventing your own wheel. After that, it’s a bit easier, but never easy. Lots of prep work. Lots of thinking about, “let’s try this.” Some students will have learning difficulties you will have to deal with. Once in a while you get someone who is pissed off at the world and wants to take it out either on you or on other students. And once in a while you will have a student produce something that is astounding. If you get more than one really great student a semester you are indeed very lucky. That does happen.

I find I get very fond of all my students, and then, poof, the semester is over and they are gone. Eventually you get to embrace that too — after all, would you really want them to hang around forever? Just like with your own kids. Hurts to see them go, but go they must for their own good.

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
Rick Wise
January 22, 2010 at 11:24 pm in reply to: Text Buttons DVD Architect Pro 5

Thanks!

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
Rick Wise
January 20, 2010 at 12:32 am in reply to: Electrical supply for a new studio

You are taking on a pretty large project. My recommendation: hire an electrical engineer who knows studio needs.

A simple answer to your volts-amps-watts question is: “West Virginia.” That’s the mnemonic for the formula: Watts = volts x amps.

From that it’s easy to get to:
— amps = watts divided by volts, etc.

One of the decisions you will need to make is what is the largest lighting unit you will be using? A 10K? 5K? 2K? etc. Are you sure this need will not change later? If in doubt, go for a larger service.

Edit bays must have dedicated, clean juice. Each computer should be on a dedicated line. Keep coffee machines, fridges etc. on their own circuits.

Hire a real pro. Or else, spend the rest of your life chasing down and resetting tripped circuit breakers. Clients don’t enjoy that gladiator sport.

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
Rick Wise
January 14, 2010 at 12:12 am in reply to: Resources for a Research Paper

Look at some of the text books in the thread on “Good Lighting Books.” Go to the library and browse through many copies of the American Cinematographer. Shoot, shoot, shoot.

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
Rick Wise
January 13, 2010 at 9:59 pm in reply to: Soft Edge

Thanks, John. The effect I am looking for is a soft-edged black border. Your solution got me there. For others, here is the detailed procedure:

• Place the clip(s) for the smaller window on its own time line
• Use TRACK MOTION to size and place the smaller window – only way the Sony Borders FX will work correctly
• Add FX: Sony Border, two times
• On the first Border, add Solid Border of color of choice and size to taste
• On the second Border, add Blurred Border and size to taste

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
Rick Wise
January 13, 2010 at 12:23 am in reply to: Good Lighting books

Motion Picture and Video Lighting, Second Edition, by Blain Brown — lots of typos, and sometimes dense writing, but a thorough book. The textbook I assign to grad students studying lighting at the Academy.

Lighting for Digital Video & Television, Second Edition, by John Jackman — I have not read this book but currently evaluating it for an on-line lighting class; looks promising.

Lighting for Television & Film, Third Editiion, by Gerald Millerson. Encuyclopedic. British. Somewhat out of date but full of timeless information.

Matters of Light & Depth, by Ross Lowell

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
Rick Wise
January 11, 2010 at 7:23 pm in reply to: rode Videomic or Rode SVM

Depends on what you are shooting. Voices? Then usually mono will be fine. Music? Usually better with stereo. The mono mic is cheaper.

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
Rick Wise
January 11, 2010 at 6:56 pm in reply to: Cinemtography Exercises

All the above are excellent. I find that my beginning students have a terrible time understanding correct exposure. Whether they shoot film or video, I suggest you devise repeated exercises on how to handle exposure in ALL kinds of conditions, including when the actor moves from shade to full sunlight. They need to do this over and over for the learning to sink in. We forget how many times we goofed until we learned how to do all this.

Just let your imagination play and you will never run out of exercises. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
Rick Wise
January 5, 2010 at 12:57 am in reply to: first time DP needs some help

It would be helpful if you would good us some more information. Is this a night scene? Are you asking for lighting help? Camera angles? Describe where you plan to shoot. Post a few pictures of the look you want.

As always, keep it simple.

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com
Rick Wise
January 1, 2010 at 11:36 pm in reply to: Wedding Slideshow with a Twist

Cool!

Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com

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