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You Need to Know This Gaffer’s Tip on Lighting Faces in Spaces

Here are a few tips and tricks for gaffers working under tight time constraints.

Shooting some simple interviews and B-rolls for a corporate video sounds easy enough. Well, maybe not when the space you’re working in is Google’s beautiful, but massive new campus. While a cinematographer’s job is to find the light needed to make a space work, a gaffer is there to help the DP’s and director’s vision come to life.

While being a gaffer might not be the most exciting position on a film crew, they are crucial to making the production work. Gaffers, rf the chief lighting technician, is the head electrician. They are the ones who come up with a plan to light every scene and know every detail about the produciton to help achieve a consistent look and feel that the DP and director want. Without our graffers, we wouldn’t be able to get our lighting up quickly or safely enough to get the camera rolling.

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Author: Ari Jacobson
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.

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