The traditional Hollywood school of lighting draws its inspiration from the painting of Vincient, Leonardo da Vinci Vangogue and likewise it is expected that every person photographed must look a little better than real. Every object must look flattering. This is in line with the age old definition of ‘Beauty’. Anything that pleases the eye is termed as beauty. And this is achieved primarily in photography through lighting. In early thirties to the fifties, this stylisation was concretised by the great cameraman like Bergman’s Camera-man Nikswith, Devid Lean’s Fredy Young, Jack Cardiff and Nepal’s Jotin Das of New Theatre and Radhu Karmakar of Raj Kapoor films and RD Mathur of Mughle aazam fame It is this hollywood school of lighting which is taught here at Foundation Institute for Learning Media, which is the strength of the course.

Enormous development in the field of films, lenses, laboratories & chemicals, C.C.D of television cameras and the digital technology have made things easier and complex simultaneously. The end result is of very high technical grade but the introduction of high end technology has made training compulsory for the people involved in operating these. People going through the proper training find things easier but others find things very complex.