For the past three years I have organized cinematography workshops & master classes at the Gothenburg Film Studios during their annual Gokinema event.
The Danish cinematographer Eric Kress led the first of these workshops, demonstrating the lighting of matched close-ups.
This is the first of four posts about Eric's workshop
ERIC KRESS, DFF, is a leading European cinematographer whose credits include:
The Kingdom
Flickering lights
Arn the Knight Templar
Monica Z
and my personal favorite, the original 2009 version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Eric has also shot some Danish television episodes, notably for the wonderful series Borgen, about a woman Prime Minister.
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the Gokinema workshop
During the workshop Eric demonstrated simple variations of lighting close-ups of a man and a woman near a window. When we designed the session, Eric and I chose the theme of dual close-ups because lighting matching close ups is something that every cinematographer has to do often.
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stills
In part 1 of the workshop video, Eric introduces the workshop and then demonstrates 3 lighting variations around a window on the sound stage set:
1. one exterior soft source
2. adding an exterior poly bounce as a background light
3. adding an interior fill
These set-ups are illustrated in the images below
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the video
During the workshop Eric was wonderful about sharing every step of his creative process.
Watch on YouTube
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workshop & video credits
cinematographer - Eric Kress
moderator - Benjamin B
cast
Matilda Jelse
Pontus Tornqvist Loven
crew
gaffer - Luisa Fanciullacci
1st AC - Filip Lyman
set designer - Kristina Sandfors
on-set DIT/editor - Jonas Andersson
producers -
Benjamin B & Michael Petersen
Gokinema at Gothenburg Film Studios
thefilmbook
with the support of
Marc Galerne - K5600 Lighting Europe
Jacques Delacoux - Transvideo
Anders Johannsson - Media Teknik
video cameramen - Abdul Danesh, Michael Petersen, Nokokure Zaire
video editor - Barbaros Gokdemir
a video by Benjamin B
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LINKS
Eric Kress website
imdb: Eric Kress
wikipedia: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 by Niels Arden Oplev)
YouTube: trailer for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
wikipedia: Borgen TV series
Gokinema - yearly event with workshops, seminars, trade show
Barbaros Gokdemir on vimeo
imdb: Barbaros Gokdemir
Robert Hardy's insightful comments about the Part 1 video on the nofilmschool site.
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The next post in the series is Part 2
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thefilmbook: Eric Kress Lighting Workshop - Part 1
thefilmbook: Eric Kress Lighting Workshop - Part 2
thefilmbook: Eric Kress Lighting Workshop - Part 3
thefilmbook: Eric Kress Lighting Workshop - Part 4
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