Analyze and Replicate Lighting from Great Cinema and Famous Paintings,
with Peter Stein, ASC. Learn from the Masters.

RESCHEDULED TO: Saturday, September 3, 2011

Peter Stein, ASC will recreate lighting setups using equipment from Scheimpflug Digital & RGH LIGHTING
PLUS: New Door Prizes for All Attendees

Register today for this Saturday's Workshop and Networking led by world renown Director of Photography, Peter Stein, ASC (Steven King's Graveyard Shift; Pet Sematary). Join us for this exciting, Continuing Education Workshop and networking event for the working artist shooting with DSLRs, Digital Cameras, and Film Cameras. Upon completing the workshop, attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion.

Peter Stein, ASC will show you how to recreate lighting setups, step by step, with the following equipment:

• Fog machine with juice
• 650 fresnels with stands and scrims
• 300 Arris with stands and scrims
• 1K softlights with stands and eggcrates
• 4x2 kinoflo
• C stands
• sandbags
• 18x24 single net, double net
• 18x24 solid flags
• quad boxes
• 25ft extensions
• 1K variacs or 1K hand dimmers
• black wrap
• black and while show card
• gaffer's tape

Program Details:

• We will talk about learning from the masters, which is one of the best ways to develop a good eye.
• We will review hard vs. soft light, the direction of the key and the ratio of key to fill.
• Making the best use of architecture and windows, and lighting backgrounds so as to add structural interest will be discussed.
• We will also illustrate the use of smoke, mist and dust to add texture, and show examples from various films utilizing these tools (including some over-use).
• We will then recreate some of these lighting setups, step by step, while referencing the monitor through the use of the DSLR camera.
• Some of the most important moments in film occur in close-ups. We will talk about finding the best angle, and demonstrate how to best light and compose a good close-up.
• A number of clips from memorable films with different "looks" will be shown, along with paintings by old masters, such as Rembrandt and Vermeer. The lighting will be broken down into understandable concepts.
• If time permits: we will talk about exterior lighting, light control and the use of reflectors, and butterflies.

Testimonial

When:	RESCHEDULED TO: Saturday, September 3, 2011 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Where:	StudentFilmmakers.com Workshop Studio 1123 Broadway, Suite 307, New York, NY 10010 (Enter via 1133 Broadway building entrance on weekends.)
Schedule:
12:30pm	Check-in and Networking
1:00pm-5:00pm	Analyzing and Replicating Lighting from Great Cinema and other Art, with Peter Stein, ASC
Cost:	$175.00. Get $25 off online registration now. * Students w/ ID receive additional 10% off. * Use Coupon Code CINE10 and get 10% off two or more Cinematography Workshops with 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.

Cinematography Workshops with Peter Stein, ASC

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Who Should Attend

All filmmakers who want to add to or improve their skill sets. Filmmakers, Cinematographers, Camera Operators, Videographers, DSLR Shooters, Directors and Producers.

Student and professional film and video makers are encouraged to attend this continuing education workshop and exciting networking opportunity. 

"As a Director of Photography one should always go into a lighting set-up with a firm plan in mind, but be ready to throw it out the window if necessary. It is often the innumerable chance occurrences that happen as the lighting progresses that are the stuff that brilliance is made up of."

"With the new technologies at hand, current film students have the chance to be the innovators creating the newest and most daring styles in future filmmaking."

-Peter Stein, ASC

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Peter Stein, ASC

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About the Instructor 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.

Credits Include:

DOCUMENTARIES
Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story - PBS 2007
Tupperware!, PBS Playhouse - 2004
Politics of Cancer - Theatrical Release - 1994
Streetsmart Kids  -  HBO Special, 1985
Laughs -  HBO Special, 1981
Just Crazy About Horses  -  Theatrical Release - 1978

FEATURE FILMS
Mr. Nanny -  Comedy, starring Hulk Hogan, New Line Cinema, 1993
Missing Pieces  -  Comedy starring Eric Idle and Lauren Hutton, Orion Pictures, 1991
Necessary Roughness  -  Comedy starring Scott Bakula, Paramount Pictures, 1991
Stephen King's Graveyard Shift - Paramount Pictures, 1990
Ernest Goes to Jail -  Comedy starring Jim Varney,Touchstone Pictures, 1990
After the Rain  -  Starring Ned Beatty, Brian Keith, New Century Vista, 1990
Pet Sematary  -   written by Stephen King, Paramount Pictures, 1989
Ernest Saves Christmas  -  Comedy starring Jim Varney, Touchstone Pictures, 1988
The Wild Pair  -  Starring Beau Bridges, Trans World Entertainment 1987
A Great Wall  -  Orion Pictures, 1986
Billions for Boris  -  Starring Lee Grant, Comworld Pictures, 1985
Wildrose -  Starring Lisa Eichorn and Tom Bower
C.H.U.D. -  Starring John Heard, Daniel Stern, New World Pictures, 1984
Reuben, Reuben  -  Starring Tom Conti and Kelly McGillis, 20th Century Fox, 1983
Friday the 13th - Part 2  -  Paramount Pictures, 1981

TV MOVIES
Cold Feet - TV Pilot, NBC
The Con - USA Movie, 1998
A Midwife's Tale - The American Experience - PBS, 1996
Harambee! - PBS, 1996
Desparate Choices - NBC, 1992
Night Visions - MGM Television for NBC, 1990
The Call - Showtime, 1989
Elvis and Me - New World Television, ABC, 1988
The Last Fling - ABC Movie of the Week, 1985
Under Siege  -  NBC Special Event, 1986
The Parent Trap 2  -  ABC Disney Movie, 1986
Izzy and Moe  -  CBS Movie of the Week, 1985
Private Contentment - PBS Playhouse, 1982
A Good Dissonance Like a Man  -  PBS Special, 1977

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