Location Lighting for Television

Alan Bermingham works as a freelance lighting trainer and consultant with International Television Training Consultancy, a company he formed in 1992 after his post as Head of Lighting at Television South West. Alan started his broadcasting career with the BBC in 1959; after many years at the BBC Engineering Training Centre, he moved to TV-am as a Lighting Director for two years.

Aim of lighting; need for lighting on location; light measurement - candela; light measurement - lumen; light measurement - illumination; inverse square law; cosine law; colour temperature - concept and examples; use of dimmers - tolerances; colour temperature measurement; correlated colour temperature; mireds; contrast ratio - limitation - upper end; contrast ratio - lower end; basic TV optics - angle of view; basics TV optics - f no; depth of field; how much light? camera sensitivity; camera filter wheel; woom ramping; light sources - hard sources; light sources - Fresnel spotlight; light sources - soft light; control of light - barn doors, Fresnel/open/soft; control of light - use of flags and cutters; control of light - use of veils; control of light - use of inverse square law; basic portraiture - keylight - factors - horizontal; basic portraiture - kicker light; basic portraiture - working aperture; lighting - half interview; mixed lighting; CCD camera types; special lamps - PAR moving lights; coping with sound; lighting at night; planning aspects; continuity of lighting; creating mood/atmosphere; electrical safety/mechanical safety; spotmeter; black and white balance.