I need to make lighting for my "set" but i dont know what lites to use? DOes anyone have exp building thier own lighting? Right now I have about four 1500 watt work lites but these seem to bright or something? Can you frost glass on worklights or does anyone have any other solutions??8)?
Ghetto lighting for indie filmmakers is awesome because there are so many different ways to do it.
One way would be to put a shirt over the light. I have used under shirts before. I cut them along the seam so that i can have the option of having one layer of cloth or two, depending on how dim i want the light. Be careful though, they WILL burn. So you have to take them off between takes. So in order to solve this problem you can use coat hangers and tape them to the light so that the shirts dangle in front of the light. Another option would be reflectors. Grab a piece of cardboard and some aluminum foil. Then wrap the cardboard with aluminum foil. Or you can spend 50$ on a professional one.
Rember you can alway make th epicture darker in post and have it not loose alot of quality. But if you under light it then it looses alot of quality in order to brighten it up.
You need three main light sources to light a set (this is very basic lighting) Here is a great site that explains it
?url? http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/light/index.html?/url?
"Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling." - Stanley Kubrick
"Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling." - Stanley Kubrick
I second this problem mentioned by rollabum.
In all of the movies I make it seems that lighting is a problem, and takes away from some of the overall quality of the movie.
Robi: What type of lights were you talking about (a lamp, big flood lights?) And how much will it cost me to get theses/where can I get them?
Go to any Home Depot or construction warehouse and you should be able to get your hands on a pair.
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there is an example on ebay of what you will be looking for.
?url? http://www.lightinguniverse.com/flood-lights/view.aspx?family=10618?/url?
thats some i would recommend buying for back lighting and such
"Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling." - Stanley Kubrick
"Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling." - Stanley Kubrick
