Lighting techniques are invaluable for filmmakers at every level. For a director, they can help you communicate with your cinematographer.

Mechanics or artists? -- From the portrait to the close-up -- The drama of light -- Organizing the image -- Inventing the observer -- Conventions and functions -- The art of balance -- The promises ...

Marked by stark visual contrasts, chiaroscuro lighting, and sharp angles pioneered in German expressionism, noir plunges the viewer into morally gray situations in which good may triumph, but at a ...