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Drawing from author Tim Palmer's thirty years of experience working as a cinematographer for award-winning drama series including
Killing Eve,
Bad Sisters and
Line of Duty, this book is the go-to guide on how to light just about any scene a cinematographer may face when shooting a TV show.
List of contents
Introduction; Chapter 1: Day Exterior (Case Studies:
Indian Summers, The Last Kingdon, Strike Back, Bad Sisters, Killing Eve); Chapter 2: Day Interior (Case Studies:
Strike Back, Killing Eve, Dr Who, No Escape, Case Sensitive, Line of Duty, The Last Kingdon); Chapter 3: Night Exterior (Case Studies:
Real Men,
The Last Kingdom, Indian Summers, Strikeback, No Escape, Critical, Living The Dream, Killing Eve, We'll Take Manhattan, Being Human, Case Sensitive, McDonald and Dodds); Chapter 4: Night Interior (Case Studies:
Killing Eve, The Last Kingdom, Flowers in the Attic: The Origin, Dublin Murders, Bad Sisters, Tina and Bobby, Brief Encounters); Chapter 5: Special Situations (Case Studies:
No Escape, Strikeback, Killing Eve, No Escape, The Last Kingdom, Critical)
About the author
Tim Palmer is Professor of the Practice in Cinematography at Boston University, USA and has been a member of the British Society of Cinematographers since 2013. He has been working at the forefront of British television drama for nearly 30 years, having experienced the progression of shooting formats from Super 16 and 35 mm film through analogue and digital tape to the file-based systems used by digital cameras today. He has been nominated for multiple awards for his work on
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and
Breathless and continues to work today on high-profile drama series, including
Killing Eve, The Last Kingdom, Bad Sisters, and
Line of Duty..
Summary
Drawing from author Tim Palmer's thirty years of experience working as a cinematographer for award-winning drama series including Killing Eve, Bad Sisters and Line of Duty, this book is the go-to guide on how to light just about any scene a cinematographer may face when shooting a TV show.
