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CAMERA & LIGHTING TECHNIQUE

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The painter paints his canvas and his tools are pigments and brushes. The cinematographer paints his canvas with lights and records on film or video. Though the tools are different yet the end results have striking similarities. Photography has it roots in science, technology, art and aesthetics. Physics,  chemistry, engineering technology are the means to achieve the end, that is, the  aesthetics. Such a subject needs serious studies to achieve high-end results. In the  classroom the students are given the scientific and technological inputs along with  the art related knowledge to develop the artistic sense.

The Film and Television technology is growing rapidly and every other day a new  equipment is released in the field. The training methodology at FILM is to prepare the  students for latest developments in the field and also to be prepared for the yet to be  released equipment and for the ever changing wide variety of hardware / technologies. The students during the training use wide variety of analog and digital cameras along with several other support equipment needed for broadcast quality programmes.
At different levels the student during the training period, works as cameraman for several student production exercises which are designed on lines of the real situations in the professional field. The purpose of artistic lighting expands beyond merely illuminating the subject for exposure level. A good lighting can make the subject appear better than what it meets the eye and good subject may look ordinary if the lighting lacks aesthetics. The right balance of practical exercises along with the theoretical classes and demonstrations enable the students to use sophisticated camera and lighting equipment to produce high quality pictures. 

TRADITIONAL HOLLYWOOD SCHOOL OF LIGHTING 

The traditional Hollywood school of lighting draws its inspiration from the painting of Vincient, Leonardo da Vinci Vangogue and likewise it is expected that  every person photographed must look a little better than real. Every object must look flattering. This is in line with the age old definition of ‘Beauty’. Anything that pleases the eye is termed as beauty. And this is achieved primarily in photography through lighting. In early thirties to the fifties, this stylisation was concretised by the great cameraman like Bergman’s Camera-man Nikswith, Devid Lean’s Fredy Young, Jack Cardiff and India’s Jotin Das of New Theatre and Radhu Karmakar of Raj Kapoor films and RD Mathur of Mughle aazam fame It is this hollywood school of lighting which is taught here at Foundation Institute for Learning Media, which is the strength of the course.

Enormous development in the field of films, lenses, laboratories & chemicals, C.C.D of television cameras and the digital technology have made things easier and complex  simultaneously. The end result is of very high technical grade but the introduction of  high end technology has made training compulsory for the people involved in  operating these. People going through the proper training find things easier but others  find things very complex.