Workshop

DRAWING IN LIGHT FOR VIDEO

ADVANCED SEMINAR IN LIGHTING TECHNIQUE AND AESTHETHICS

FROM FILM TO DIGITAL HD VIDEO IMAGES
This Workshop deals with artistic lighting for film transferring to video (DV) and HD and will address both theoretical and practical concerns. Participants may wish to bring with them a digital still camera.

Course Outline:

1. Professional Light Structure basic characteristics of light and adaptation, (using Professional Convention), from film to modern HD video in classical and experimental forms.
2. Lighting Styles Professional and aesthetic rules acquired from the Tradition of Studio Lighting. Documentary; Cinema Verite, Direct Cinema, Traditional Documentary.
3. Testing colour and black and white density and resolutions of images in the process of establishing different Lighting compositions.
   1. Establishing Composition: Technique HD Video
      Light Atmosphere (Indoor & Outdoor): Modulated Lighting to Tonal Lighting.
   2. Camera movements. Dramatic conflict between the content and the frame of the picture.
   3. Light relations. Rhythm.
   4. DOP Technical Specification and Artistic Statement for film and video.

Instructor: Nena Toth

Nena Toth is a graduate from Prague's renowned FAMU University's film school, where she earned a Master's degree in Cinematography. Her teaching experience includes over 25 years in European and North American universities; Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade (FDU); Academy of Film and Television and Art Muses (FAMU), Prague; University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California; University Of Toronto, Canada.

In her Canadian film company, Nena Film Verite Productions, Film and Video Production and Education, Nena Toth has created and produced documentaries, short dramas and experimental films. Her films have been awarded prizes at a number of International film festivals. She has been the Director of Photography in over one hundred short films and videos, as well as in four feature films. Nena teaches and works as a DOP, director, and producer both in Canada and in Europe.