Instructor: Terry Gadsden
Workshop Description: Here’s a puzzle – you want to shoot a dark scene, but you know you need light in order for something to be seen. What do you do? If you throw too much light at it, the scene won’t be dark, and if you throw too little light at it, the scene will be indistinct!
A puzzle, possibly even a conundrum…
“Lighting for the Effect of Darkness”, just might throw some much needed light on this puzzling conundrum.
The fact is, without light, there would be no sight.
Illustrating concepts by using examples from various movies, the workshop will present several lighting techniques to help you achieve many of the moody and atmospheric effects provided by the perception of darkness. We’ll discuss how a scene may not necessarily be dark in order for the viewer to perceive it as dark. Borrowing a trick or two from magicians, we’ll distract the viewer’s eye away from lighting and towards an atmosphere of darkness.
Biography: Who is Terry Gadsden and Why should you listen to him?
Well, he’s been around…
Experience along with wonderful mentors can provide an excellent education.
Terry Gadsden’s full-time career in the film industry started in 1968. Across the years he has acquired extensive experience in almost every aspect of film, video, and music and sound effects production: director, editor, composer, producer, writer, art director, assistant director, location sound recordist, lighting, voice talent director, budgeting, camera assistant, translator, cinematographer, sound designer, postproduction supervisor, production planner, scheduling, cost estimating, advertising agency producer, title designer, special effects, casting, sound mixer, ACTRA signator, client liaison – when you’ve done all that you can’t help but learn a thing or two about the benefits of organization.
Terry has worked for CBC-TV, CTV, Global, TVO, Bravo, the Disney Channel, the BBC in England, and many production companies. His name is on many awards: EMMY nomination, several CLIOs (American advertising awards), Bessies (Canadian advertising awards).
Production experience with: television and radio commercials for Coca-Cola, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Infiniti, and Saturn automobiles, Kellogg’s cereals; television specials for CBC and CTV; animated productions for TVO, APTN, and Sesame Street in New York; music videos for Bravo and for streaming; promotional films for IBM and Adidas; educational films; mini-series, like Anne of Green Gables for Kevin Sullivan; documentaries for CBC, BBC, and Bravo. Thousands of hours in Canadian recording studios and mixing theatres. Experience with all film formats: 16mm, 35mm, 70mm, IMAX, most digital formats.
International Experience: location work in Russia, Holland, Florida, California, England, the United Arab Emirates, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal, and the Maritimes in Canada.