Lighting technician
The lighting technician is responsible for lighting the set. They work under the supervision of the director of photography or, if applicable, the chief lighting technician.
More specifically, the lighting technician performs, non-exclusively, most or all of the following tasks:
- determines the equipment needed for lighting and ensures the procurement of said equipment, all while respecting the financial parameters set by the producer;
- moves, installs, and removes the equipment necessary for set lighting, ensuring their proper functioning during recording;
- positions, adjusts, filters, colors, diffuses, etc., the lighting to achieve the required intensity levels to create shadow and light areas faithful to the director’s vision and the needs of the script.
*Please note that the use of the masculine gender has been adopted for ease of reading and is not intended to be discriminatory.
Course plan
- What is the lighting profession?
- Electricity: the basics
- Electricity: distribution network
- Electricity: control network
- Electricity: practical application
- Lighting: basic concepts
- Lighting: traditional lamps
- Lighting: programmable LED lamps
- Lighting: lighting installations
- Installation: crane, gondola and car camera
- Tour of filming facility
- Resource preparation and management
- Fall protection
- Safe use of a telescopic forklift truck
- Safe use of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) and aerial work platforms
- Safe use of a forklift truck
- Working with water: rain, pool, boat and ice field
- Truck stowage, preventive and practical driving
- Camera-car safety code
- Use of inflatable balloons
- Final simulation
General skill courses
Here is the content of the general skill courses that takes place in the first hours of all training programs:
- Act respecting owners, operators and drivers of heavy vehicles (Bill 430)
- Awareness of the impact of filming on the living environment and residents
- First aid in the workplace
- Hazardous products and WHMIS
- History of Quebec cinema
- Introduction to the union – AQTIS 514 IATSE
- Masterclass conference, open to the public
- Notions of ecology: application of green sets
- Occupational Health and Safety on film sets
- Penal and criminal liability (Bill C-21)
- Personal responsibility and rental equipment
- Personal finances
- Presentation of key positions in production departments
- Presentation of the AQTIS-514-IATSE union agreement
- Prevention of physical and psychological harassment
- Preventive driving
- SAAQ Highway Code and general tie-downs
- Sanitary measures and the pandemic
- Teamwork, interdepartmental interaction and hierarchy
- The Actor’s role and relationship with the technical team
- The Producer’s role and relationship with his technical team
- Understanding direction and production documents