I've searched and looked through about 10 pages of the lighting thread and can't find anything. I know this must've come up before. Anyway....
I have a shoot coming up for a hip hop video where I will have to shoot a couple people driving in the front seats of a car. I'll most likely be using my stickypod for most of these shots from different angles. My director wants them to "glow" so he'd like to try to add as much light as possible to make it look good. I'm kicking around a couple of options but I'm not sure which is the most practical. If anybody can help, it'd be greatly appreciated.
My ideas are:
1) Attaching 1 or 2 650w (or 1K) Britek heads to the hood (In some DIY way) shooting into the windshield powered off an inverter of some sort.
2) Shooting the car with the visible window greenscreened. Bounce the car to make it look like its moving.
3) I thought about hiding flo's inside the car but I think I'd need really powerful ones to shoot during the day.
I have problems though with each of these. In the first scenario, I'd have to run off an inverter (I think) because the car would be moving. But all the inverter's I've been seeing attach directly to the car battery. Wouldn't this make it impossible to drive the car? Is there a cigarette lighter adapter that I can run the lights off of that can handle these lights? Will 1 or 2 650w lights be enough to light black people in daylight?
With the greenscreen, I would have more control because the car would be still, but I only have a relatively small collapsible greenscreen, so it would take some creative composition. I've also never lit/shot one myself, so I'm kinda scared about it.
Which do you think would look better? Do I have any other options? Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this. Thanks.
-Ryan
I have a shoot coming up for a hip hop video where I will have to shoot a couple people driving in the front seats of a car. I'll most likely be using my stickypod for most of these shots from different angles. My director wants them to "glow" so he'd like to try to add as much light as possible to make it look good. I'm kicking around a couple of options but I'm not sure which is the most practical. If anybody can help, it'd be greatly appreciated.
My ideas are:
1) Attaching 1 or 2 650w (or 1K) Britek heads to the hood (In some DIY way) shooting into the windshield powered off an inverter of some sort.
2) Shooting the car with the visible window greenscreened. Bounce the car to make it look like its moving.
3) I thought about hiding flo's inside the car but I think I'd need really powerful ones to shoot during the day.
I have problems though with each of these. In the first scenario, I'd have to run off an inverter (I think) because the car would be moving. But all the inverter's I've been seeing attach directly to the car battery. Wouldn't this make it impossible to drive the car? Is there a cigarette lighter adapter that I can run the lights off of that can handle these lights? Will 1 or 2 650w lights be enough to light black people in daylight?
With the greenscreen, I would have more control because the car would be still, but I only have a relatively small collapsible greenscreen, so it would take some creative composition. I've also never lit/shot one myself, so I'm kinda scared about it.
Which do you think would look better? Do I have any other options? Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this. Thanks.
-Ryan
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