Well, I've decided on a theme for my limited blogging. It is to collect, in one place, useful stuff about the technique of film (video) making.

Obviously this will be idiosyncratic rather than comprehensive, and hopefully what I find useful might be of use to others. What I want to know, more than just the technical knowledge that is usually freely available in text books, is how the art is practised by experts.

One might be surprised that people with such practical expertise are so willing to teach the rest of us, and to teach us without charge! All we have to do is find their posts on the internet, study carefully, practice and evaluate. Practice is the essential bit. Without practice the nuances of their wise words cannot be understood or absorbed, we get nothing to evaluate, and we just make our folders of "useful stuff" fatter to no benefit.

 

Some might be deterred because the expert might be talking of lighting a very expensive commercial, something way outside our budgets and experience. But in describing how they used their massive lighting budget and the effects they wished to achieve, we learn basic lessons that we can put into practice on a much smaller scale. Well, provided that we get out our own gear and try ideas.

 

That's my purpose here. To collect the links and do the practice.