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Certified User Training for Lighting

Lighting Systems Control with Richard Cadena | Online

ARRI Academy Lighting Systems Control with lighting professional/author Richard Cadena goes over the basics of digital lighting control technologies. Whether you are starting out in the lighting industry or looking to streamline your production workflow, this 11-lesson video course is the ultimate guide to get you up and running with digital lighting control, using DMX, RDM, wireless DMX, and ethernet-based networks.

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What you will learn

  • DMX and wireless DMX
  • Building and troubleshooting a DMX network
  • RDM
  • Intro to and testing of ethernet-based networking: PING and IPCONFIG commands
  • Art-Net
  • sACN
  • Consoles
  • ARRI LED ecosystem

Who should attend

  • Cinematographers
  • Operators
  • Assistants
  • DITs
  • Students
  • Film school teachers
  • Rental staff

Duration

This online course has a duration of around two-and-a-half hours in total.

It is divided up into 11 individual sessions.

To read more about what each session includes, click on the "Buy now" button below.

Trainer

Richard Cadena, lighting designer/consultant and author

Richard has been in the lighting industry for over 30 years, working as a tech, programmer, designer, electrician, and account rep. In addition to working on shows, he also teaches classes and workshops covering a variety of live event production-related topics including entertainment electrics, power distribution, control systems, and programming.

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Language

The course is held in English.

Online platform

The course is available on MZed - Education for Creatives.

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Lighting Fundamentals | In-person

This three-day advanced lighting workshop gives cinematographers, gaffers, and filmmakers the opportunity to explore dramatic lighting techniques used in fiction films.

Through hands-on sessions, lectures, screenings, and discussions you will explore the importance of light in visual storytelling and the techniques and processes behind complex lighting setups.

Working collaboratively as a film crew, you take on the creative and technical challenges of feature film cinematography. The class will learn how to scout a location and plan lighting requirements for a scene. You will tackle challenging lighting situations with goals to achieve specific visual aesthetics through hands-on sessions. You will light scenes with LED, HMI, tungsten, and fluorescent units, learning to use grip equipment to shape and control the light through practical exercises. You will light a variety of interior and exterior residential and commercial spaces, as well as car interiors, day and night scenes, and dramatic scenarios with actors, using the most recent and advanced technology in film lighting.

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What you will learn

  • Demonstration of lighting equipment, SkyPanels, SkyLink and the Stellar app
  • Lighting demos (incl. light for the look upstage side, big source, book light, low contrast / high contrast, and many more)
  • Lighting a scene on a set for two different times & moods
  • Tech scout for location shoots
  • Three different location shoots
  • Poor man’s process car night

Who should attend

  • Cinematographers
  • Lighting designers
  • Gaffers
  • Operators
  • Assistants
  • Rental staff
  • Colorists and color graders

Language

The course can be held in English and German.

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