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Learn Cinematography From An Expert

About  Lu-La presents Cinematography with Richard Michalak

As a companion Tutorial toLuminous Landscape’s Guide to Cinematography, we are publishing an excellent tutorial on the basics of film-making. 

Richard Michalak is an Australian cinematographer with 40 years of cinema & television credits and awards. He has taken his depth-of-knowledge & experience and created a jam-packed Tutorial on the fundamental principles of film-making & lighting.

The tutorial is presented in a very compact and straight-forward style.

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Other topics include:

Auto Settings: why not?

Shot Description

Shot choice

Storyboard

Shot Framing

Camera Height

Continuity

Wide & Long Lenses

Moving the Camera

How to move the Camera Handheld

Focusing the Camera

Focusing a DSLR

Frame Rate

Slow Motion

Shutter Speed

F-Stop

Depth-of-Field

ISO / Gain

Filters

What Camera?

Lenses

White Balance

Why Light a Film?

Three Point Lighting

Soft & Hard Ligh

Silhouetting

Backgrounds

Shooting with the Sun

Choice of Background

Brightness of Background

About the Videos

High Definition 720p

The video files are stand-alone. This is not streaming video but rather video material that you purchase and store for future reference. There is no expiration date or subscription.

All content is copyright. The files contain no active Digital Rights management (DRM). Viewers may copy the files freely between machines for their own use. By downloading the videos, you agree to be bound by the contained copyright.

Use QuickTime Player, VLC Player or other media player to view on a computer monitor. Windows, Mac, and Linux systems are all supported. Conversions to other formats are detailed in our FAQ. 

The format is High Definition 720P video suitable for playback on a modern computer with powerful graphics card. The files will import directly into iTunes for viewing on an  iPad  at 720P at  25 fps.

October 2011