Tribeca Film Festival and Apple Event – Lighting Your Film with Daniel Choy Boyar

The Tribeca Film Festival and Apple host an event called “Meet the Filmmakers.” For the last two years a friend of mine, Daniel Choy Boyar, has been a speaker at the event. This year, his session was called “Lighting Your Film with Daniel Choy Boyar.”

Veteran gaffer Daniel Choy Boyar has worked with numerous cinematographers on hundreds of productions, ranging from commercials and music videos to independent shorts and major feature films. Join him for a discussion about green-screen lighting, interview lighting, and lighting professionally on a low budget.
Wednesday, April 24, 7:00 p.m.

Dan and I have worked together on many commercials and for the last few years I’ve been developing my own style of technical drawings to illustrate the lighting plans. There are multiple programs like Vectorworks and Omnigraffle for 2D overhead lighting diagrams, but I wanted to make mine in 3D.

For his presentation this year, Dan asked me to make several diagrams to illustrate the lighting setups he’d be presenting. I was excited to part of the event and treated the assignment as a speed challenge. I”m happy to say that I created all of the diagrams and designs in about an hour. I have a continuously growing library of 3D rigged and textured lighting, grip, and camera equipment that I’ve created in Maya over the last few years.

You can see Dan’s whole presentation in this PDF.
http://directedlighting.com/pro-lighting-042413.pdf

Cheers,

Matt