Hugh Gordon cinematography lectures

Spent some time last week with Hugh Gordon rigging some studio lights. As simplistic as it may be the joy of getting up ladders and moving around the studio lights for lighting the green screen as a simple but wonderful joy to me it seems as close to me now as I could imagine a real studio being. Although being far from it I find it wonderful getting to work in some aspect with such a knowledgable man and his understanding of his craft is something I greatly aspire to. Something as simple as climbing a rickety old ladder to adjust lights for me is a joy that allows my mind to wander to thoughts of replicating this for a proper feature film. Even something so simple would bring great happiness that I guess stems from a general love of film. And sometimes I become incredibly frustrated when witnessing people chuckling at some of the things he may say as I have nothing but admiration for the man something that the rest of the students on this course I feel should realise rather then sometimes jest about, when I myself long to have such a great knowledge of lighting as a discipline I find myself very much hanging on his words In hope of taking on board as much I can of his understanding of cinematography. And the great thing I find about him is the time he has for people, in explaining and teaching what he knows which luckily for me resulted in him helping me learn about the light meter I had bought. After recently buying a western master 5 light meter I had a lot of trepidation about its accuracy and also how it worked yet he spent some great time with me explaining it and also testing it against his modern far more expensive digital light meter. And the result was that my light meter read only slightly under his, something which he himself said is very good especially considering its age. And now I have a greater understanding of how it works and how to use it for later projects something I hope to elaborate on and gain a greater knowledge of the different types of measurements and how to apply it to the camera settings.