Workshop

PAINTING IN LIGHT
ADVANCED SEMINAR IN LIGHTING TECHNIQUE AND AESTHETHICS

FROM FILM TO VIDEO IMAGES
This Workshop deals with artistic lighting for film transferring to video (DV) and HD and will address both theoretical and practical concerns. Participants must bring with them a still camera and color slide film.

Course Outline:

1. Professional Light Structure basic characteristics of light and adaptation,( using Professional Convention), from film to modern video in classical and experimental forms.
2. Lighting Styles Professional and aesthetic rules acquired from the tradition of Studio Lighting. Documentary; Cinema Verite, Direct Cinema, Traditional Doc.
3. Testing colour and black and white density and resolutions of images in the process of establishing different Lighting compositions.
   1. Relative Exponometry. Method of systematic application of exposure-meter values in black & white and color films.
   2. Exposure Light basic technical conditions. Light module ½ indicates one half of the exposure light. White surface. Exposure effects. (Indoor & Outdoor): Technique - Color Slides, Still Camera
   3. Lighting compositions from film to video. Indoor and Outdoor, taking images with classic still camera, digital still camera and DV camera. Transferring and digitizing all images to computer's images.
   4. Establishing Composition: Technique HD Video Light Atmosphere (Indoor & Outdoor): Modulated Lighting to Tonal Lighting. c) Camera movements. Dramatic conflict between the content and the frame of the picture.
   5. Light relations. Rhythm.
   6. DOP Technical Specification and Artistic Statement for film.

Instructor: Prof. Nevenka Redzic Toth, MFA

Prof. Toth is a graduate from Prague's renowned FAMU University's film school, where she has earned a Master's degree in Cinematography. Her teaching experience includes over 25 years in European and North American universities; Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade (FDU); Academy of Film and Television and Art Muses (FAMU), Prague; University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California; , University Of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

She was a Director of Photography in over one hundred short films and videos, as well as in four features.

In her Canadian film company, Nena Film Verite Productions, Film and Video production and Education, Nena Toth had created and produced documentaries, short dramas and experimental films. Her films were awarded and recognized at a number of International film festivals.

She is teaching and working as a DOP and director as well as producer both in Canada as well as Europe.

Nena's documentary film "Canoeing to the Arctic" had become a part of the National Archive's Collection of Canada in 2008.

Nena_toth@rogers.com
www.graham.gs/nena_toth_filmmaker/index.html