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LIGHTING HANDBOOK
How to Get The Most
From Your New ARRI Kit

by Bill Holshevnikoff

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For more detailed information about the
lighting techniques for the images used in thisbooklet, please go to www.power-of-lighting.com

ARRI USA, INC.
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Ph: 914-353-1400

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LIGHTING THEORIES AND TECHNIQUES:
There havebeen dozens of books throughout the past
decades that have discussed "standard" lighting setups
for interviews, talk shows, dramas and countless other
productions. This handbook is designed to help you create
the best possible images with your new Arri Lighting Kit.
It is intended to help you to use these tools to light a variety
of setups for location or studio productions.

CHOOSING ALIGHT SOURCE:
Arri Kits contain a variety of lighting fixtures. The two
basic types of instruments are the open-faced instrument
and the Fresnel-lensed instrument. Both types of light
sources provide a focusable, even beam field of light that
can be used to create a wide variety of light qualities and
moods for your productions.

ARRILITE OPEN-FACE

ARRI FRESNEL
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LIGHT QUALITY can be characterized by how "hard"
or "soft" the shadow produced by an instrument appears.
The quality of light produced by an instrument is determined by the physical size (not the intensity) of the light
source used. In general, the larger, more diffused the light
source, the softer the light quality. Typically, adiffusion
material, such as frost or a silk, might be placed in front
of a lighting instrument to increase the working (physical)
size of a light source. (When light transmits through a
diffusion material, the illuminated diffusion material then
becomes the acting light source.)

ARRILITE WITH FROST

ARRILITE WITH LIGHTBANK
A sharp, well-defined shadow edge (hard light), like that
which isproduced by the sun, is most often produced by
a small light source, such as one of the instruments
contained in this kit.
A softer, less-defined shadow edge (soft light) like that of
a cloudy day, is most often produced by a larger, more
diffused light source, such as a Lightbank (available with
some Arri Kits).

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SOFT LIGHT

If you do not have a Lightbank, there are many other
ways to create softer light qualities with the instruments
contained within this kit. Attaching frost to the barndoors
will soften the light quality slightly. Placing a large diffusion panel (silk) in front of the source, or bouncing the
light off of a white wall, ceiling orwhite card, will
produce a dramatically softer light quality.

ARRILITE BOUNCING OFF
OF FOAM CORE BOARD
Again, the physical size of the light source is directly
related to the quality of light produced. So, ideally, one
should consider the appropriate light quality for a shot or
scene prior to setting up the lighting. For example, hard
light may not be considered a natural light qualityfor
many interior scenes (such as an office with four white
walls and overhead fluorescent lighting).

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HARD LIGHT VS. SOFT LIGHT:
There is no hard-fast rule as to when to use hard or soft
light for a shot or scene. Creating a particular light
quality is a judgment call, and there are no wrong or
right...