We started our week with David Gilkey, one of NPR's two Videographers, though I'm not sure how they would feel about that title. He gave us a quick tutorial on lighting. He focused on musical performances, or perf chats in NPR lingo, because that is probably the one scenario where we would have enough set-up time to bother with a lighting kit. It was interesting. He discussed the problems radio interviews cause when shooting for video. Basically the mic is in the way so a video shoot would involve asking the performer to redo a song with a mic that wasn't directly in the shot.
Then he moved on to how lighting works. The up-shot was that you need consistent defused light that isolates the person you are shooting. He talked about lighting problems camera operators run into in the field and how to work around those. This led to a broader discussion on the direction of NPR and its future web presence.
-- Joel Riddle
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