Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
photo imaging skills to:
archive, maintain and manage film and digital assets
create and optimise files and film to photo imaging industry standards
implement OHS and quality control procedures as they apply to a range of lighting techniques and technology
research skills to access and compare contemporary styles and conceptual and aesthetic approaches to lighting techniques and technology
critical thinking skills to:
reflect on and analyse own performance
recognise barriers to innovative possibilities arising from lighting techniques and technology
literacy skills to:
interpret business documents and contracts
obtain necessary permits and licences to operate equipment and work in special locations
numeracy skills to determine mathematical problems arising from technical processes associated with lighting techniques and technology
communication skills to:
explain and describe work practices and methods
negotiate with suppliers, models, creative teams and other stakeholders
learning skills to:
learn the operation of equipment
review personal performance within shoot context
upgrade knowledge required to work in varied locations
planning and organising skills to:
adhere to timelines within the experimental process
coordinate activities of models, assistants, and creative and production teams
organise shoots on location and in studio and prepare shoot management timelines
technology skills to check and reinstate equipment, studio and props.
Required knowledge
OHS procedures and standards associated with lighting techniques and technology
lighting techniques and technology to determine suitability for innovative and creative production purposes
traditions and contemporary issues that inform lighting techniques and technology.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Lighting techniques and technology may include: | candles, matches and firelight car headlights and light trails film, television and theatre fireworks and sparklers galleries and displays Kirlian imagery natural light, including: lightning sunlight and starlight aurora photography/imaging lighting for studio or location Schlieren street lights supplementary and mixed lighting situations where images are made by ambient and supplementary illumination to: create colour effects enhance the colour depth of the subject emphasise parts of the subject balance the contrast that may be apparent from the principal illumination torches and spotlights ultrasound ultraviolet and infra-red sources x-rays and gamma rays. |
Theories on the nature of light may include: | human vision nature of light, including: colour temperature electromagnetic spectrum inverse square law natural light phenomena reflection and absorbance terms used to define light quality and direction. |
Photo imaging lighting technologies may include: | digital sensors dynamic range of input (capture) device and tonal clipping of output (printing) device exposure determination methods and devices: digital histograms dynamic range lighting ratios film emulsions merge to high dynamic range (HDR) meter types: colour temperature flash meter hand-held in-camera spot metering methods: colour and resolution targets evaluative grey cards incident off-the-film reflective metering modes: centre-weighted averaging matrix spot natural or ambient light: afterglow corpuscular rays (God beams and columns) mercury and sodium vapour lights mist and fog moonlight rain and storm rainbows smoke and haze sunlight sunrise and sunset reciprocity failure scan backs shooting in RAW studio and location lighting technology: combined ambient and flash electronic flash high-speed flash multi-flash and strobe painting with light southlight and northlight opening for natural light tungsten and photoflood use of gels to colour light sources use of transparent and translucent surfaces to place subjects on for shadowless effects tungsten, incandescent and fluorescent zone system. |
Appropriate people may include: | members of relevant professional associations mentors and peers practising photographers, photo imagists and members of allied fields. |
Shoot requirements may include: | hiring lighting and equipment locating specialist lighting technical experts obtaining legal access to locations (e.g. permits and site licences) and specialist lighting technology upgrading skills to operate specialist lighting technology and/or work in hazardous locations. |
Range of locations may include: | agricultural and rural commercial and industrial indoors natural landscape studio underwater urban. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist