Preparing and maintaining equipment must be taken into consideration when learning how to incorporate virtual production within the lighting department.
Prepare and use equipment to modify and manipulate lighting
- Ensure that all conventional lighting fixtures accurately reflect the output of the LED screens in terms of colour temperature and scene brightness
- Ensure there is no spill light from conventional fixtures hitting the LED screen as this causes contrast issues
- Dependent on scene content, decide whether to match foreground lighting to LED or vice-versa
- Continually monitor CRI with spectrum meter
- The way conventional lighting fixtures impact on an LED screen and studio
- The importance of dynamic risk assessment
- How to carry out dynamic risk assessment
- The types of lighting effects available, when to use them, and the methods of achieving them
- The characteristics of fire-retardant filters, relevant regulations in use for these and how these affect their use
- How to identify faults or problems with lighting equipment, and how to resolve them
- How to produce hard shadows and soft shadows using flags
- How to secure and position frames under different conditions with due regard to the safety of yourself and others
- Safe methods of fixing or supporting stands, and who to contact for assistance
- What to do in the event of equipment failure
- The importance of minimal disruption to the production when replacing faulty equipment
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Identifying lighting equipment for virtual production
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