Lighting Fundamentals
Natural light, three-point setups, budget kits, lighting for mood.
- Lectures
- 7
- Total runtime
- 2h 59m
- Attendance minimum
- 1h 30m
- Prerequisites
- PRO-101 Camera & Composition I
Lecture Playlist
Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.
- Lab 10 Part 1: Introduction to Lighting (Lecture) (MIT DV Lab) The physics and vocabulary of light: quality, direction, intensity, colour 64 min Attended
- Ultimate Guide to Cinematic Lighting — Types of Light & Gear Explained [Shot List Ep. 12] The kit: fixture types, modifiers, and what a budget setup actually needs 14 min Attended
- Color Temperature Explained — The Cinematographer's Guide to White Balance & Color Temp Fundamentals Colour temperature and white balance: surviving mixed daylight and lamplight 11 min Attended
- Lab 10 Part 2: Introduction to Lighting (Demonstration) (MIT DV Lab) Three-point lighting built live: key, fill, back, and the ratios between them 38 min Attended
- Ultimate Guide to Cinematic Lighting Pt. 2 — How to Light Subjects and Locations Lighting real subjects in real rooms: portrait patterns, high key and low key, window light 23 min Attended
- Roger Deakins on 'Learning to Light' — Cinematography Techniques Ep. 1 Lighting for mood: a master cinematographer on how to learn light 9 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator The Lighting Techniques That Make Films Look Expensive Lecture 1's quality-and-direction variables and Lecture 6's motivated-source principle put into practice: a working filmmaker lights five real scenes end to end, window light and practicals included 20 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Jon Kent — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.