Continuing Education and Workshops for Professionals

Back by Popular Demand: "Lighting for Mood, with Peter Stein, ASC," December 2011 Event

By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Jul 27, 2011, 18:54

Peter Stein, ASC will lead the continuing education workshop and networking event: "Lighting for Mood, with Peter Stein, ASC," December 3, 2011, at the StudentFilmmakers.com headquarters in Manhattan, New York.

Topics include:

  • Understanding basic 3 Point Lighting. Using small lighting units including softlights, fresnel (lensed) lights and open face lights.
  • Hard light and soft light: the benefits and problems of each type.
  • Changing a hard light into a softlight.
  • Using fresnel lights and when to use open face lights.
  • How to cut lights with barndoors, flags and nets.
  • Where to place the key light to help achieve the desired look.
  • The ratio of the key to fill.
  • How to make a background more interesting.
  • The use of color.

This Continuing Education Workshop and Networking Event is for all filmmakers, cinematographers, and camera operators. Professors, Students, and Professionals are encouraged to attend.

Program details, schedule, and online registration at:

http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/workshops/cinematography-Peter-Stein-ASC-Lighting.html

Peter Stein, ASC

About Peter Stein, ASC

As the Director of Photography on over 50 feature films, TV movies, and documentaries, Peter Stein, ASC has photographed classic cult films in various genres, including comedy and horror, as well as major studio and independent releases, and noted documentaries. He was invited to join the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers in 1999.

One of his first feature films as a Director of Photography was the horror film classic Friday the 13th Part 2, the second largest grossing film in 1981 for Paramount. He then went on to shoot the literary comedy Reuben, Reuben for 20th Century Fox, which was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Actor, Tom Conti, and Best Screenplay, Julis Epstein (Casablanca), and was the film debut of the actress Kelly McGillis.

Among other horror genre films he shot are Stephen King's blockbuster hit Pet Sematary, C.H.U.D. and Steven King's Graveyard Shift. He was the DP on two of Touchstone's children's movies, Ernest Saves Christmas and Ernest Goes to Jail and New Line's hit children's comedy Mr. Nanny starring Hulk Hogan and Sherman Helmsley. Among other films he shot are Paramount's football comedy Necessary Roughness with Scott Bakula, Robert Loggia and Kathy Ireland, and Orion's A Great Wall, directed by Peter Wang, the first Chinese/American co-production.

His TV films include Izzy and Moe, with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney, The Con starring William Macy and Rebecca De Mornay, The Last Fling with John Ritter and Connie Selleca, Parent Trap Two with Haley Mills,and Private Contentment with Peter Gallagher for PBS' American Playhouse - directed by Tony Award winning director Vivian Matalon. Peter also lensed the groundbreaking NBC special event mini-series Under Siege with E. G. Marshall, Hal Holbrook, and Peter Strauss, and was nominated for 2 Emmy Awards.

He has photographed numerous documentaries such as the critically acclaimed A Midwife's Tale for PBS' American Experience and the feature documentary Just Crazy about Horses which played theatrically in New York and LA. Among other documentary work is HBO's Laughs and The Mystery of the Morro Castle. He also shot the PBS documentary Tupperware which was the front cover story in theSunday NY TIMES television section.

Peter Stein, ASC has taught at SUNY Purchase and The School of Visual Arts, and has lectured on cinematography at many of the area's universities. He has been on the NYU graduate faculty since 2002 where he is Head of Production. Currently he is producing and directing a documentary film for American Public Television about his father the noted photographer Fred Stein.

 

Resources:

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