Easy ways to light a scene - CINEMATIC LIGHTING Breakdown

Easy ways to light a scene - CINEMATIC LIGHTING Breakdown

In this video I’m going to breakdown a few lighting setups from a recent short with Smallrig. We’ll take a look at a moody indoor scene, an exterior in harsh sunlight and & indoor scene mixing natural light. For my camera I went with the Sony FX3 and a set of DZO Vespid Primes with a Smallrig Wireless Follow Focus.

VIDEO CREDIT:

EDIT: Ian Nieuwenhuizen & Jacques Crafford
COLOUR GRADE: Jacques Crafford
ATHLETE: Eric van der Walt
PRODUCERS: Tanya de Jager & Junè Muller
GRIPS: Jaun-Louis Naudè, Eduan Naudè, Corne Horn
ASSISTANTS: Luan Storm & Berno Van Der Westhuizen

SPECIAL THANKS: Black Ops Crossfit, The Leopards Rugby Union & Athletics Central North West

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How to light up a scene

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[choobracer]

Those tubes down the hallway are perfect! Didn’t even notice them until you pointed them out. 👍

[mauriciotrujillo]

I love your work!, no ego, no pose; it's all pure cinematography and beautiful results!

[tomwomersley]

AGAIN! Loved this! Thank you Jacques. ❤

[af-photography]

How did i only find your channel now, keep it up 👑

[sonofthesea]

Fantastic - simple solutions with impactful results. Not easy to achieve without a long time working hard and figuring it all out. Thanks for sharing.

[haraldribel]

You truly are a master of light! Your tutorials are simply in a class of their own!

[markthecretor]

Yet again, Jacques drops a load of gems for me to add to my tool bag. Lighting for the space and not the face. The effort you put into keeping the beam on that back wall is mind-blowing.

[vincentr-fr]

the interior scenes are superb

for the outside the bounce method seems better to me in these conditions (no clouds, very strong sun). It's hard to fight against the sun but above all it's not easy to balance for a natural result.

you could also use negative ground fill to avoid red reflection and save time in post ;)

[quochungbui]

This is a useful video. This is so professional such as your camera, your light.. I'm an amateur filmmaker, I don't have enough budget like you. It will be exciting if you make a series using less light and a cheaper camera. It may be a challenge for you and useful for almost any viewer

[maggiechen]

😊Appreciate the lighting contrast diagram.

[Souchoroukof]

I really don’t get sometimes how most creators looking for the most fancy gear and neglect the power of good lighting for their work. Really great video. Love that you explain each scenario and the why you placed each light. Invaluable

[mediiacompany_]

Hey man, you have some of the best tutorials I've seen! I've just binged quite a few of them haha. I do have a question for you: I've noticed you use a lot of the same clips from different projects in your tutorials (all of them are awesome btw), but as you bring in those clips into a new project, do you re-color grade them every time? Or have you found an efficient way to reuse clips in new projects? If you have found an efficient way to do that in Davinci Resolve, I would love to know how you organize/execute it!

[TravelInOneMinute]

It looks so easy when you are doing it

[WhySteve]

Nice. Do you use false color to determine your exposure for the skin?

[エプル]

I'm new here, please make about color grading im very exited on your video great🎉

[blimages]

Lovely video bout very short u can make it long even 15 minutes

[blackjohnny]

What about colors? How to set up camera for shooting?

[helenmmesomaamaechi]

Pls can you make a tutorial on how to shoot and edit short comedy skit with iphone😳🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏????
I will be very happy, love from Nigeria ❤️❤️❤️

[MajorXFC]

Tried registering for the sony alpha universe. Unfortunately I could not get based the product registration. It would not take the info for my gear(s) I tried to register. Anyone else had this issue.