David Landau teaches lighting and cinematography at Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA, where he also created the Cinematography track of study and received a Teacher of the Year Award from the University Film &Video Association. He has won six Telly Awards and a Cindy Award for his lighting and cinematography. He has worked as a Director of Photography on Indie features and served several years as the Lighting Director for Exxon Corporate Video and Warner Lambert Video. Over his career David has worked in the camera and lighting departments on commercials, infomercials, documentaries and TV shows including being one of the gaffers (IATSE Local 52) on Lifetime's Project Runway reality series for 4 years and lead gaffer and location LD for several seasons of Lifetimes Project Runway Allstars. David is the author of Lighting for Cinematography (Bloomsbury, 2014) as well as editor of The Cinetech Guides to the Film Crafts series. He also is the author of Film Noir Production: The Whodunit of Classic American Mystery Film (2016) and co-author with David Carren of Next Level Screenwriting (2019).

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I - FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1: The Visual Design Crew & On Set Behavior
Chapter 2: Camera Shots, Framing, and Camera Operation
Chapter 3: Lenses
Chapter 4: Cameras and Camera Supports
Chapter 5: The Magic of Light
Chapter 6: Lighting, Lamps, and Electricity
Chapter 7: Multi-Camera Lighting & Camera Operation Basics

PART II - PRODUCTIONS
Chapter 8: Multi-Camera Interviews
Chapter 9: Shooting Stand-Up Comedy Shows
Chapter 10: Shooting Reality Shows
Chapter 11: Shooting Cooking Shows
Chapter 12: Shooting Scripted Studio Productions: Daytime Dramas, Sit-Coms, Puppet shows, and More
Chapter 13: Lighting Scripted Studio Productions
Chapter 14: Shooting Scripted "Film Style" Productions

Appendix 1: Recommended Books & Websites
Appendix 2: Manufacturer Resources
Index

A how-to book on the art, craft and practice of TV/video/streaming cinematography for multi-camera shooting.
This book is written for anyone wanting to film, direct or produce multiple camera productions. Lighting Directors, Directors of Photography, Camera Operators as well as Directors, Producers and Production Managers will all find valuable information that will help them do their job and accomplish their goals of effectively filming with more than one camera at the same time. This book could be seen as an intermediate to advanced media production course book for colleges. It is also meant to give insight and inspiration to those starting out their professional careers in multi-camera productions.
The text covers advice for producing and filming content using two or more cameras in many genres including Sitcom, Stand-up, News, Talk Show, Interview, Reality, Corporate Video and Indie Movies, with budgets both big and small, by two award winning professional industry cinematographers/lighting directors with over 30 years of experience each.