Name: Set Lighting Technician's Handbook By Harry Box
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Set Lighting Technician's Handbook Summary

Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution by Harry Box

Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Third Edition is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions.

The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety. It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. Since its first edition, this handy on-set reference continues to be widely adopted as a training and reference manual by union training programs as well as top university film production programs. New in the third edition is an expanded resource section, new illustrations and tables, and coverage of new lighting products and techniques for how to use them.

Set Lighting Technician's Handbook Reviews

There are charts and lists galore. In fact, the book's great virtues are its clarity and its comprehensiveness. - W.A. Vincent for Choice

Box's book is a romp in the playground of everyday movie magic...the gadgets, their monikers, and the puzzle masters that bring meaning to vanity and career success are explored within the Set Lighting Technician's Handbook. - Mike Dilley, Take 1

In plain language, Box discusses day-to-day practice on the set, current equipment in use and extensive tricks of teh trade useful to everybody from the director of photography to the gaffer, rigging crew, best boy and lamp operator....Box thoroughly demystifies the world of film lighting.
- Ray Zone, American Cinematographer Magazine

Having worked in motion picture lighting since 1978 and a Gaffer for 10 years, I can appreciate that [Box] took an approach which can be understood by anyone in the industry...As far as I know, this is the most comprehensive book written about motion picture set lighting, ...covering over 90% of what a set lighting technician actually does when he goes to work.--Russ Caldwell, gaffer

The language of the book is clear and utilizes a style that assists the reader to assimilate the information into work practices. The appendices are an excellent compilation and I know they are unique to the SLTH. One would have to go to several other lighting and camera books, the National Electric Code Guidebook, and manufacturers' data sheets to look up the same information that has been included by this author--Michael Gallart, gaffer, rigging gaffer, and best boy

Anyone looking to learn the art of film and TV could do a lot worse than read this book. - Lighting & Sound

About Harry Box

Harry C. Box has worked in television and motion picture production since 1989. Over the years he has done substantial work as a lighting technician, gaffer, camera operator, director of photography, and as an educator. His recent credits include network and cable television series, such as Heroes (NBC), Brothers and Sisters (ABC), and Everybody Hates Chris (CW). He has worked on major motion pictures, independent feature films, telefilms, documentaries, music videos, commercials, and industrials.

1 Set Basics: Your First Barbecue; 2 Preproduction Planning: Lighting Package, Expendables and Personal Tools; 3 Tungsten Lighting Arsenal; 4 HMI Lighting Arsenal; 5 Fluorescent Lighting; 6 Stands and Rigging Hardware; 7 Lighting Objectives and Methods; 8 Manipulating Light: Tools, Techniques and the Behavior of Light; 9 Electrician's Set Protocol; 10 Specialty Lighting; 11 Electricity; 12 Electrical Distribution Equipment; 13 Power Sources; 14 The Work World; Appendices and Glossary

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CIN0240804953G

ISBN 13

9780240804958

ISBN 10

0240804953

Title

Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution by Harry Box

Author

Harry Box

Condition

Used - Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Year published

20030317

Number of pages

592

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