Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution

Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution by Box, Harry. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780240802572.

The Set Lighting Technicians Handbook is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to the motion picture lighting technician. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, simple techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions. The Set Lighting Technicians Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety. It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. This handy on-set reference has also been widely adopted as a training and reference manual by union training programs and top university film production programs. New in the second edition: Revised and updated throughout 12 new appendices of handy reference tables Over 180 illustrations and photographs Lots of new topics and gadgets Harry C. Box is a Hollywood-based gaffer and director of photography.