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An introduction to creating mood and better-looking low budget digital movies, aimed at those with little or no technical knowledge of filmmaking.

Tutor:	Chris Thomas	Venue:	10 Craven Street, WC2N 5PE
Date:	June 2, 2011	Duration:	Evening
Time:	6:30pm - 9:30pm	Price:	£48.00 inc VAT

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Light is the most important tool available to you when enhancing the atmosphere and mystery of your story on camera. On the shoot, the Director of Photography will spend the greater part of his or her time getting the lighting set-up to best represent the scene's aesthetic and emotional needs.

Using a digital camera and a simple lighting kit, this workshop will introduce you to the basics of lighting for moving pictures, with emphasis on working on the low-budget digital formats.

The course covers:

• -Working with available light
• -Using Tungsten lights and daylight together
• -Hard & soft lighting
• -3 & 4 point lighting set-ups
• -Diffusion & flagging to control light
• -Creating a cinematic look
• -Q & A 

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Anyone contemplating a film or video shoot where the use of lights will enhance production values.

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Chris Thomas has been teaching and developing courses for film directing with Raindance since 2000. With a strong emphasis on storytelling and communications skills, he has created classes both practical and inspirational.

Chris learnt his key skills from acting and directing in Theatre where the focus was always on using limited resources and engaging the audiences imagination. It was a natural shift for him into filmmaking.

The camera classes he runs place weight upon storytelling and understanding visual grammar from a psychological and creative perspective.

As a teacher Chris has always prioritised clear communication of the techniques he has learnt and encourages his students to harness their individual talents through the methods he demonstrates. He believes learning is a two-way process and as a film maker it never ends, however there is a place to begin and his courses offer up an opportunity to do so.

Chris is has recently shot a teaser trailer for the upcoming psychological thriller, Dead of Winter, a short called emmas Last Date , both shot on HD and is devlopment on his first feature script The Devil You Don’t, a dark comedy about the power of influence and the battle between the nearly good and the fairly evil.

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