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Our Recommended Lighting Equipment

Lesson 10 from: Video Production Essentials: Create, Edit and Post Online​

Philip Ebiner, Sam Shimizu-Jones, Will Carnahan

Our Recommended Lighting Equipment

Lesson 10 from: Video Production Essentials: Create, Edit and Post Online​

Philip Ebiner, Sam Shimizu-Jones, Will Carnahan

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Lesson Info

10. Our Recommended Lighting Equipment

Lessons

Class Trailer

Chapter 1 Introduction

1

Welcome to the Class

02:12
2

What Makes a Great Video

03:17
3

What Type of Video Should You Make

02:47

Chapter 2: Pre-production

4

Come up with a Great Video Ideas

05:05
5

Plan Your Video

03:30
6

The Pre-production Checklist

04:04

Chapter 3 Equipment - Our Suggestions for Getting Started

7

Does Equipment Matter

01:34
8

Our Recommended Cameras

06:00
9

Our Recommended Audio Equipment

04:37
10

Our Recommended Lighting Equipment

01:47
11

Our Recommended Editing Equipment

02:11
12

Our Recommended Drone Equipment

05:35
13

Quiz: Chapter 3

Chapter 4:Cinematography Basics

14

Exposing Your Shots

05:25
15

Compose Your Shots

04:25
16

Filming Yourself

01:09
17

Getting the Right Shot

03:43
18

Choose a Background

02:32
19

My Office Video Setup

02:54
20

Quiz: Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Tips for Shooting with Different Cameras

21

Exposing with DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras

06:31
22

Focus with DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras

02:35
23

Stabilize Your Shots

02:57
24

Know Your Lenses

03:18
25

Shoot with Your Smartphone

05:10
26

Shoot with Your Webcam

05:49
27

Record Great Screencast Videos

04:20
28

Tips for Better Drone Shots

04:06
29

Types of Drone Shots

01:43
30

Quiz: Chapter 5

Chapter 6: Audio Recording and Microphones

31

Choose the Right Microphone for Your Video

03:14
32

Record Better Audio in Any Environment

01:27
33

How to Use a Lavalier Microphone

02:47
34

How to Use a Shotgun Microphone

00:55
35

How to Record Audio with Your Computer

01:27
36

Quiz: Chapter 6

Chapter 7: Video Lighting

37

Why We Light

01:03
38

Use Natural Light

04:14
39

The 3-point Video Lighting Setup

07:26
40

Quiz: Chapter 7

Chapter 8: Editing Better Videos

41

Intro to Editing

02:15
42

The Post-production Process

07:50
43

Craft a Story with Editing

05:21
44

Improve Your Audio with Editing

06:34
45

Find and Add Music

05:12
46

Design Clean and Professional Titles

03:15
47

Increase Video Engagement with Calls to Action

01:29
48

Quiz: Chapter 8

Chapter 9: Get More Views - Publishing Your Video Online

49

Export the Best Quality Video for Online

02:54
50

Tips for Posting Online

05:28
51

Grow Your Youtube Channel

04:41
52

Quiz: Chapter 9

Chapter 10: Case Studies: Real-world Filmmaking

53

Case Study - Corporate Promo Videos with Ghirardelli Chocolate

08:54
54

Case Study - Event Videography with Major Lazer

08:39
55

Case Study - Documentary Films with Phil

14:24
56

Case Study - Shooting By Yourself

15:32
57

Case Study - Wedding Videography

08:37
58

Case Study - Phil's Livestream Setup

04:23

Chapter 11: Conclusion

59

Thank You

00:59

Final Quiz

60

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Our Recommended Lighting Equipment

So let's recommend a lighting kit. If you're first starting out, it's easier just to go buy very cheap homemade lights. You can go to Home Depot or you can use paper lanterns. You may find it somewhere like Ikea. We're going to talk more about this in the lighting section in this course. Another great way to use cheap home lighting is just grabbing the lights around your house. You may have some nice lights around your bed um in your living room that you can kind of move up close to you or use their ambient light to light your subjects. Another great technique that I use all the time is just putting your subject or yourself or whoever you're shooting next to a window. There's nothing better than the free light coming from the sun, although you are going to be sort of slave to the weather. However soft lighting is usually nicer and if you have harsh lighting coming through a window, you can always use it as a backlight. You'll just be racing the sun for mid tier lighting. You can go thr...

ee different ways. You can rent a lighting kit for your shoot. You can find a cheap new kit online somewhere or you can buy a pro used kit online somewhere. So if you're going more in a pro level, I would suggest going into the Led World, we use lights made by light gear and they're LED lights. Led lights are great because they don't put off a lot of heat, they draw very little power um they're dimmable and you can buy color them, which means you can have them be tungsten light or you can have them be daylight to match the sun lighting. Really depends on different projects and different locations. You can really figure out what light you need based on the project that you're shooting. So it's kind of hard to really invest in one light that will encompass your entire project unless you're doing something specific all the time. You can really get away with natural light if you're shooting outdoors a lot and if you have a home office setup, it's really easy to just set up lights and leave them year round, whether it be a china ball or a home depot light. We'll list out some of our recommendations in the attached pdf.

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