Chapter 11
Controlling tone and color
The pictorial effect on the screen is the combined result of scenic design, camera and video adjustments, and lighting treatment. It is important to appreciate how other people’s judgements can alter the appearance of your settings.
Controlling tone
11.1 Exposure
If you point a video camera at a scene containing a wide range of tones the resulting picture can sometimes be very disappointing.
We can see subtle tonal gradations in those whitewashed walls, yet in the camera’s picture they are only reproduced as blank white areas. Similarly, details that we can see in the shadows are lost on the screen as they merge into blank black areas. That is because the video camera can only reproduce a comparatively ...
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