What's your Horrorfest Lighting kit?

[Darkline]

The cinematography was one of the best elements in this fest. I want to invest in some more kit for my next production and I wondered what people had used in this one.

Some shorts like Stricken, Rekindled, Bloody Mary and a lot more all looked the bees knees..... What did you use, and what did other people use to get their shots to look as horiffic as they could?


I'll start, for Halfway I had :

1 dimable 50w pin spot
3 (normal kitchen type) flourescents on dimmers (creates the flicker!)
1 30W strobe light
1 25W UV light.

I'd be really interested to hear what everyone else had.

[Inexistence]

Sunlight was free... so I took it.

[Darkline]

'our DP was god' nice one

[jpbankesmercer]

'Broken Circle'

On-set
1 - 2k Arri - Behind the clock
40 - Candles (should have been double wick!)
1 800w Photonbeard (Behind the crack of the door)

I should have got the others up!

[Cynic821]

secret.

[Darkline]

boooooo

[Gauranga]

The sun, a bounce card, and a practical with red gel.

[Geoff_R]

(3) 650w
(3)1000w (didn't use em once though)
Small pepper kit, 100w, 300w, 500w
4x4 kino, 4x1 kino
Other small assorted lights for fill or something special.

[Brandon Rice]

the sun and some awesome branches for dynamics.

[JoshuaNitschke]

Sunlight and car headlights.

[snodart]

1, 750W
2, 500W omnis (one w/ barn doors, one with soft box)
1, 250W
black foam core
bounce card
gels
black felt
gaffer tape
clamps
makeshift c-stands
aluminum foil
...

[TheatreGuy]

4 - 500w Fresnels
8 - 1k par64s
2 - 750w 6x9s
12 - 20-35w music stand lights
3 - home made dimmers
assorted top hats, barn doors, gobos
black wrap, gels up the butt
rope light
and ladders!

Can you tell I come from theatre???

[HybridCreations]

"Memories"

Briteks and AutoPoles.
Mostly 650's and 300's.
1K to push some daylight through the window in the kitchen.
Blue gels. Diffusion. Blackwrap.
Black trash bags and gaff tape for blocking windows.
Etc.

[HybridCreations]

Can you tell I come from theatre???

I had a hunch:)
V V V V
gels up the butt
Great film too btw.

[MOVIE MASTER]

2 flood lights
2 1000 watt work lights
2 bounce boards

and it still sucked damn i got to learn how too light

[TheatreGuy]

Thanks HybridCreation. I appreciate it!

And I guess, I should state that my arsenal of lights is what I have, NOT what I used on I.D. (hell, that would have burnt my camera up!)

:grin:

[Beat Takeshi]

I think its the eye of the DP not the contents of the light kit.

[Geoff_R]

I think its the eye of the DP not the contents of the light kit.

I couldn't agree more. I've lost count of how many hollywood films I've seen that have crappy cinematography (framing, angles, overall shot decisions) but if you were to pause and analyze any specific shot you'd say, "the lighting itself looks good, I like that shadow falloff...some nice edge lighting there...some 'and on and on..."

[jeans]

0.01w jar of fireflies.

[Kyle Stebbins]

i used a 60 watt red lightbulb in a worklight, two sets of 500w fresnels and of course, the sun. i also used the LED light from a computer monitor to get that "creepy-internet-stalker-glare"

[Kyle Stebbins]

0.01w jar of fireflies.
HAHAHAHAHA

[Ralph Oshiro]

LIGHTING KIT FOR RUNWAY

http://www.24framefilms.com/P/LIGHTS.jpg

2 Home Depot daylight flourescent work lights
1 Office Depot daylight flourescent desk lamp

[khmuse]

Our kit consisted of:

1x Arri 1.2k HMI
1x Arri 650 tungsten Fresnel
1x Arri 300 tungsten Fresnel
4x Dedolight 400 series (150W)
1x Lowel CaseLite 4 (4 tube 'Kino' like source)
2x ECA practicals
2x 16" China Balls with ECAs
4x PAR16 cans with 75W reflector floods

[Magicchildfilms]

The HOME DEPOT!!! :)

[TimurCivan]

2X 1200 watt Britek openface
3X 300W Britek openface
1X 300W Arri Fresnl
2X 250W Prolites
5X 12W 3100K Flourous Kickers

Gels, Gobos, ingenuity. and fuses.... lots of fuses.

[HybridCreations]

Oh yeah, add Timur's Arri 300 to my list too.:) Thanks Timur.

[TimurCivan]

joo got it mang....