Tutorial: Light and Camera Control

This tutorial will introduce techniques for physically manipulating light sources and cameras.

Objectives. At the end, you should be able to do the following:

  1. identify components from our automation kit: light stand breadboard, gobo pivots, stepper motors, stepper motor driver package, stepper motor power supply.
  2. rig a custom gobo wheel.
  3. rig an actuated lighting armature.
  4. rig an actuated camera panning pivot.
  5. compose a motion program for one or more light sources and moving camera.

Deliverables: by next class, please finish setting up your scene and shoot a short video.