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| List of Tables | |
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| List of Appendices | |
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| Preface | |
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| Set Basics: Your First Barbecue | |
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| Job Descriptions of the Lighting Crew | |
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| Director of Photography | |
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| Gaffer | |
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| Best Boy Electric | |
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| Electricians | |
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| Rigging Crew | |
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| The Fixtures Guy | |
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| Generator Operator | |
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| Grip Department | |
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| The Company | |
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| Production Staff | |
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| The Director's Team | |
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| Camera Department | |
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| Sound Department | |
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| Locations | |
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| Transportation | |
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| Art Department | |
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| Civilians | |
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| Block, Light, Rehearse, Tweak, Shoot | |
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| Preproduction Planning: Lighting Package, Expendables, and Personal Tools | |
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| Preproduction Planning | |
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| Scouting Locations | |
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| Production Meetings | |
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| Equipment Package | |
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| Loading the Production Van | |
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| Expendable Supplies | |
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| Gels and Diffusion | |
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| Electrical Expendables | |
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| Tools and Personal Gear | |
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| Tool Belt | |
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| Meters | |
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| Other Hand Tools | |
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| Personal Gear | |
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| Grip Equipment | |
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| Shiny Boards | |
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| Overhead Sets | |
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| Carts | |
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| Mounting Hardware | |
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| Dollies | |
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| Other Grip Equipment | |
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| Grip Expendables | |
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| Light Fixtures--The Basic Tungsten Arsenal | |
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| Tungsten Light | |
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| Tungsten Color Balance | |
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| The Tungsten Bulb | |
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| Fresnels | |
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| Fresnel Beam | |
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| Creative Uses of Flood and Spot | |
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| The Globe and Its Installation | |
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| Fresnel Accessories | |
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| Soft Lights | |
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| Open-Face Lights | |
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| Prime Fixtures | |
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| Broads and Nook Lights | |
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| Light Kits | |
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| PAR Lights | |
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| PAR Lamps | |
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| PAR Fixtures | |
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| Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlights (Lekos) | |
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| Bulb Adjustment and Installations | |
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| Area Lights and Backing Lights | |
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| Chicken Coops and Space Lights | |
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| Scoop Lights and Sky Pans | |
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| Cyc Strips, Ground Rows, and Borders | |
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| Small Fixtures | |
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| Screw-Base Fixtures | |
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| Stick-up Kits | |
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| Dedolights | |
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| Light Fixtures--The Basic HMI Arsenal | |
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| HMI Fixtures | |
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| HMI Fresnels | |
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| HMI PARs | |
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| HMI "Open-Face" Lights | |
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| HMI Soft Lights | |
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| Small HMI Fixtures--Sun Guns and Modular Multiuse Fixtures | |
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| HMI Operation | |
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| Setting Up | |
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| Striking | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| HMI "Flicker" and Flicker-Free Ballasts | |
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| Standard Magnetic Ballasts | |
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| Square-Wave Electronic Ballasts | |
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| Power Factor Correction Circuits | |
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| DMX-Controlled Ballasts | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| DCI Lamps and Ballasts | |
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| Three-Head, Three-Phase Solution | |
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| HMI-Type Lamps | |
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| Relamping HMI Heads | |
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| HMI Lamp Characteristics and Hazards | |
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| Fluorescent Lights | |
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| History of Fluorescent Lights | |
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| Kino Flo | |
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| Kino Flo 120-V Systems | |
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| 12-V DC Kits: 12-V Single, Mini Flo, and Micro Flo | |
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| Using Kino Flo Fixtures | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Building a Film-Friendly Fluorescent System from Commercially Available Parts | |
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| High-Frequency Ballasts | |
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| Color-Correct Fluorescent Tubes | |
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| Some Additional Notes about Fluorescent Lights | |
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| Stands and Rigging | |
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| Stands | |
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| Baby Stands | |
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| Junior Stands | |
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| Offsets, Side Arms, Extensions, and Right Angles | |
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| Using Stands | |
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| Crank-up and Motorized Stands | |
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| Grip Stands | |
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| Booms | |
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| Stand Maintenance | |
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| Rigging Hardware | |
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| Baby and Junior Nail-on Plates | |
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| Set Wall Mounts | |
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| Clamps | |
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| Grids and Green Beds | |
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| Location Rigging Hardware | |
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| Lighting Objectives and Methods | |
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| Lighting Objectives | |
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| Visibility (or Selective Visibility) | |
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| Naturalism | |
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| Composition | |
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| Time Constraints | |
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| Light Level, Exposure, Contrast, and Metering | |
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| Foot-Candles | |
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| F-Stops | |
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| Taking Readings with an Incident Light Meter | |
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| Contrast, Latitude, and the Zone System | |
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| Spot Meters | |
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| Light Level | |
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| The Genesis of Lighting Ideas | |
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| The Process of Creating Natural Lighting | |
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| Motivating Light Sources | |
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| Establishing the Key Light | |
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| Backlights, Kickers, and Hair Lights | |
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| Fill | |
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| Set Light | |
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| Lighting the Scene | |
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| Living Room Scene | |
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| Exterior Night Scene | |
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| Manipulating Light: Tools, Techniques, and the Behavior of Light | |
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| Color | |
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| Color Correction | |
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| Kelvin Color-Temperature Scale | |
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| Using MIRED Units to Calculate Color Shifts | |
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| Color-Temperature Meter | |
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| Color-Correction Gels | |
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| Coloring Light | |
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| Brightness | |
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| Methods of Control | |
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| Falloff--Your Friend, the Inverse Square Law | |
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| Dimmers | |
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| Shape, Pattern, and Form | |
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| Making Cuts and Patterns | |
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| Soft Light | |
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| Diffusion | |
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| Other Ways of Making Soft Light | |
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| Movement | |
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| Flicker Effects: Television Screen, Flame, and Fire | |
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| Moving Lights | |
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| Electrician's Set Protocol and Aerial Lifts | |
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| Set Protocol | |
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| Staging Area | |
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| Lighting the Set | |
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| Stingers and Cabling | |
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| Small Bulbs, Practicals, Wiring, and Switches | |
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| Types of Bulbs | |
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| Controlling Practicals | |
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| Light Cues | |
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| Wiring Small Fixtures | |
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| Safety | |
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| Ladders | |
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| Parallels | |
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| Working Aloft | |
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| Protecting Floors | |
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| Sprinkler Systems | |
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| Smoke, Fire, and Other Bad Smells | |
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| Lamp Repair | |
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| The Wrap | |
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| Coiling Feeder Cable | |
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| Inventory | |
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| Aerial Lifts and High Platforms for Lighting | |
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| Getting the Right Machine for the Job | |
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| Straight Mast Boom Lifts (Condors) | |
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| Rigging Lights and Cable | |
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| Condor Duty | |
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| Shooting in the Rain | |
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| Cabling and Distribution | |
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| Rain Tents | |
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| Lighting Rain | |
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| Shooting on Moving Vehicles | |
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| Specialty Lighting | |
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| Big Guns | |
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| Set Lighting | |
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| Carbon Are Lights | |
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| Moonlight Rigs | |
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| Lighting Balloons | |
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| Soft Box | |
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| Fisher Lights | |
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| Truck-Mounted Tower Lights (Musco) | |
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| Effects Lights | |
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| Xenon Lights | |
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| Beam Projectors | |
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| Automated Lights | |
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| Black Lights | |
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| Fiber Optics | |
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| Neon | |
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| Follow Spots | |
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| Operating a Follow Spot | |
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| Lightning Effects | |
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| Lightning Strikes! | |
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| Control Units | |
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| Power Requirements | |
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| Thundervoltz Battery Packs | |
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| Generators | |
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| Lighting Matte Photography | |
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| Pure Screen Color Density | |
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| Lighting the Foreground | |
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| Lighting Automobiles | |
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| Underwater Lighting | |
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| Scuba Training and Certification | |
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| The Old Drop-a-Bulb-in-the-Pool Method | |
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| Modern Underwater Fixtures | |
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| Lighting Underwater | |
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| Electricity and Water | |
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| High-Speed Photography and Camera-Synchronous Strobe Lighting | |
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| Unilux H3000 System | |
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| Sync Delay Box | |
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| Split Sync | |
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| Special Effects Generator | |
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| Notes | |
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| Electricity | |
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| The Fundamentals of Electricity and Electrical Equations | |
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| Amperes (Current) | |
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| Volts (Electromotive Force) | |
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| Watts (Power) | |
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| The Power Equation | |
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| Resistance and Ohm's Law | |
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| Parallel and Series Circuits | |
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| How Not to Use Electrical Equations--Beavis the Electrician | |
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| Circuits, Circuit Protection, and Cable | |
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| Short Circuit and Overcurrent Protection | |
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| The Current-Carrying Capacity of Cable | |
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| Types of Feeder Cable | |
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| Types of Distribution Circuits | |
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| Direct Current and Alternating Current | |
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| Direct Current: Three-Wire Edison System | |
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| Alternating Current: Single-Phase Three-Wire System | |
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| Three-Phase, Four-Wire Systems | |
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| Electrical Systems in Other Parts of the World | |
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| Grounding | |
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| System Grounding | |
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| Equipment Grounding | |
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| Line Loss | |
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| Effects of Line Loss and Low Voltage | |
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| Other Causes of Line Loss | |
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| Line Loss Calculations | |
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| Using U.K. Voltage Drop Tables | |
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| Power Problems from Electronic Loads | |
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| Power Factor | |
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| Excessive Current on the Neutral Wire | |
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| Meters for Measuring Electricity | |
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| Circuit Testers | |
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| Measuring Voltage | |
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| Measuring Frequency (Hertz Rate) | |
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| Measuring Amperage | |
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| Testing Continuity and Testing for Shorts | |
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| Wattmeter or Power Meter | |
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| Electrical Shock and Muscle Freeze | |
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| Electrical, Building, and Fire Codes | |
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| The National Electrical Code | |
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| Fire and Building Codes | |
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| OSHA and the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee | |
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| Distribution Equipment, Rigging, and Dimmers | |
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| DC Three-Wire System | |
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| DC Cans | |
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| Sister Lugs | |
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| Spider Boxes | |
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| Remote Switchboards | |
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| Mole Pin Connectors | |
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| DC Paddle-and-Stage Box System | |
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| Plate Dimmers | |
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| AC Systems | |
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| Main Feeder Run | |
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| AC-Power Distribution Boxes | |
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| Bates Three-Pin Connectors | |
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| Edison Boxes | |
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| Socapex Connectors and Cable | |
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| Adapters | |
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| Meltric and Abbott System | |
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| European Distribution Systems | |
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| Rigging | |
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| Distribution Strategy | |
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| Set Power--the "Ring of Fire" | |
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| Planning the Rig | |
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| Rigging the Set | |
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| Electronic Dimmer Systems | |
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| How an SCR Dimmer Works | |
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| Control Signals | |
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| Control Consoles | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Strand CD 80 Pack | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Power Sources | |
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| Generators | |
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| Putt-Putts (Portable Honda Generators) | |
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| Full-Size Generators | |
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| Generator Placement | |
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| Generator Operation | |
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| Grounding Generators | |
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| Selecting a Generator | |
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| Electrical Configurations | |
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| Basic Troubleshooting | |
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| Troubleshooting--Mechanical | |
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| Troubleshooting--Electrical Problems | |
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| Wet Cell Battery Packs and Inverters | |
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| Inverter Systems | |
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| Battery Packs (120-V DC) | |
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| Power on Location | |
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| Line Drops | |
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| Tie-ins | |
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| Using Available Power | |
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| The Work World | |
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| The Unions | |
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| Hollywood: Local 728 | |
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| Basic Agreement | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |