Lighting 1

Subject guarantor:

Klaus FUXJÄGER

Name of lecturer(s):

Klaus FUXJÄGER

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Understanding and mastery of functional objective depiction with lighting, different from its photographic reproduction.

Mode of study:

Contact instruction with demonstrations.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Knowledge of the culture if visual depiction in a historical context. Physics and particularly optics at the primary school level.

Recommended optional programme components:

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Course contents:

Syllabus Overview:

Three functions in the use of lighting in film and television:

1. Light as a basic technical condition for generating the optical depiction.

2. Light from the viewpoint of information about the characteristics of the subject of the scene, their textures and reflection.

3. Light as a means of artistic optical depiction stylization.

Light.

Light and its exposure effects are from the cameraman's viewpoint is evaluated in three aspects:

A. Quality, this is - a) given quality of its spectral composition

b) given quality by the character of the light source (point, diffuse).

B. Direction - from the viewpoint of: a) support or muting the perception of the space depiction.

b) support or negation the perception of the real form and dimension of the depicted object.

C. Intensity - a) intensity of a single source and its modifications and distance.

b) intensity composition of multiple sources: main lighting, supplemental and auxilliary.

Practical exponometry.

A. Analysis of scene lighting measuring the light flow on a single lighted object.

B. Analysis of scene lighting from the viewpoint of its brightness structure - points exponometry.

Sources of light and lights.

A. Means of changing the spectral composition of the artificial light sources.

B. Means of changing the characeter of the light source (diffusers, grids).

C. Regulating the nature of the emitted beam flux

Fundamental Lighting Concepts

Scene space lighting construction methods

A. Styles of mimitating primary real lighting

B. Professional convention styles - avoiding strictly logical lighting

C. Lighting activity suporting important gestures of dramatic action, including creative application of aesthetic values and unusual character.

Scene space lighting construction.

Recommended or required reading:

Bojanovský: Základní principy osvětlování

Bojanovský: Filmovým objektivem roč. 1961 č. 1-12, roč. 1962 č. 1-9

Taraba: Ateliérová technika

Taraba: Zdroje světla str. 11-14

A.Golovňa: Umění kameramana

L.Baran: Portrét ve fotografii

J. Šmok: Úvod do teorie skladby kinematografického obrazu

Company catalogs with light source overviews.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

Attendance and activity in the studio in lab processing. Quality of photograph copies from the lighting treatment viewpoint.

Course web page:

Note:

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Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	místnost 233 Učebna 4 (Lažanský palác) ŠOFR J. 14:50–16:25 (paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	14:50–16:25	ŠOFR J.	Učebna 4 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Cinematography - Bachelor (qualification subject)