Course Title: Determine Lighting Requirements and Operate Lighting

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2007

Course Code: VART5662C

Course ID: 032808

Course Title: Determine Lighting Requirements and Operate Lighting

School: 345T Creative Media

Program Code: C4144 - Certificate IV in Audio Visual Technology

Course Contact : Adam Lovell

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4976

Course Contact Email: adam.lovell@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Rowan Humphrey

Phone 99254345

Office Location Building 94 level 2 Room 35

Nominal Hours: 30

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

To enable learners to address the lighting requirements of audiovisual and video productions in a range of environments including single and multicamera recording and events.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CUFLGT03A Determine Lighting Requirements and Operate Lighting

Element:

CUFLGT03A/01 Address lighting conditions

Element:

CUFLGT03A/02 Operate a colour temperature meter

Element:

CUFLGT03A/03 Select and use corrective light filters

Element:

CUFLGT03A/04 Prepare for lighting operation

Element:

CUFLGT03A/05 Participate in technical rehearsal

Element:

CUFLGT03A/06 Operate lighting

Element:

CUFLGT03A/07 Monitor luminaires during the production

Element:

CUFLGT03A/08 Monitor technical quality during production


Learning Outcomes


Refer to elements above.


Overview of Learning Activities


Details of Learning Activities

Combination of classroom activities, field exercises and theory tutorials.


Teaching Schedule

TAFE Week Planned Activities (Subject to change)
1 Orientation week
2 Introduction to Lighting and the Course guide.
                    Complete Sherpa Roster.doc
                    Home work -Assessment #1 Complete a location plan for a location of your choice.
                    Watch films and TV.
3 Check draft location plans
                    Transmission and absorption, colour temperature, hard and soft light, f-stops and terminology.
                    Complete Gel table. DOC
                    Teacher led three-point lighting demonstration. Key, fill, backlight, bounce, shadow, operation of stands, lanterns and gels. Introduce redheads, 2k’s, Bambino and HMI.
4 Three point lighting practical exercises. (3) Groups of (5-6) students to set up lighting for a talking head addressing three different scenarios.
                    1. Tungsten balanced
                    2. Daylight balanced
                    3. Heavily backlit
 A plan will be provided showing position of subject and POV or camera position. Groups will rotate through the roles of Setup crew, observers and cast/camera. Will use still cameras and a framing box to isolate the shot.
                    Homework review elements of three-point lighting by either web search/reading or practical observations.
5 Labour Day Holiday
6 Continuity Lighting Exercise- Using a video camera, record a series of shots from a two person dramatic scene in order to maintain continuity of lighting and other aspects. Whole group exercise. Consolidation of basic three-point lighting, colour temperature, Hard and soft light and introduction to lens issues such as aperture, depth of field and composition.Homework bring in Study Notes next class.
7 Assessment #1 Plans due in.
                    Selection of locations for practical sessions in May and
                    Some theory.
                    How our eyes work
                        Basic eye construction, The lens, The Retina, Rods and Cones, Visual Acuity, Persistence of Vision
                    www.nei.nih.gov
                    How light works, The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Refraction, reflection, diffusion and transmission
                    www.imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov     BBC Video
8  Colour Temperature/Colour Theory /Lanterns/Lamps
9  Metering and measuring colour temp and density.
10  Any missing theory and revision. Depth of Field.
11  Submission of Production Folios assessment # 2
12 Practical assessments # 3
13 Practical assessments # 3
14 Practical assessments # 3
15 Practical assessments # 3
16 De brief on practical projects and Revision.
17 Final Class including    test Assessment #4
18 Reserved

Overview of Learning Resources


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

’Producing Videos : A Complete Guide’,2nd Edition Martha Mollison Allen and Unwin

1865089168


References


Other Resources

Refer to handouts in class


Overview of Assessment

Location Plan 10%
Production Folio 30%
Field Lighting exercise 30%
Closed book test 30%


Assessment Tasks

1      Submit location Plan as described in class. Due in TAFE week 7.
2      Produce a production Folio as part of a group for submission prior to Field Exercises. Due 30 April 2007.
3      Participate in Field Exercises during May. Details provided in first class.
4      Closed book test to be conducted in final class on 12 June 2007 to be confirmed in first class.

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