Location lighting

The most important element in the design of television images is light. Apart from its fundamental role of illuminating the subject, light determines tonal differences, outline, shape, colour, texture and depth. It can create compositional relationships, provide balance, harmony and contrast. It provides mood, atmosphere and visual continuity. Light is the key pictorial force in television production.

One of the simplest definitions of the aim of any TV production was stated succinctly as ‘whatever is happening on screen, the viewer wants to see it and usually wants to hear it’. Good television lighting does a great deal more than simply enabling the viewer to see programme content, but usually the first basic technical requirements ...

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