Hi Dudes,
I got referred here by MattinSTL saying that this would be a good place to ask my question. I have a photography background but have long been a movie geek. I'm in the process of making my second short movie, ultra low budget, on a DV camera (GL2/XM2).
My problem is I'm stuck with either shooting in daylight with a reflector or nothing at all. I might have made the mistake of setting most of the movie in the night and now I have no way of lighting the night scenes. What makes it worse is the fact that they're action scenes, and so it makes light all that more important.
My question is is there any way I can bring a portable light system to an outdoor set, without using a generator or knocking on a neighbour's door and asking them if we can feed off their power with a 500 foot cable. I'm recieving a set of soft boxes soon so maybe that could do something in the way of lighting?
What I see a lof of movies do in night scenes is rig a very high-powered lamp a couple dozen feet up, casting a blanket of light onto the set and bringing more detail to the shot. I've noticed without that my shots at night look quite forlorn and amateurish, and this is an even tougher problem in terms of portability and affordability. I've thought of using a 200W halogen lamp attached to a ladder to make do for scenes we can perform near a crew-member's home, but that can only work so far, and is not really a portable solution...
Please please, I hope you geniuses can whip up a solution for me! The deadline is drawing near and the crew grows impatient...
Thanks so much, and once again thanks to MattinSTL for referring me to this website!
I got referred here by MattinSTL saying that this would be a good place to ask my question. I have a photography background but have long been a movie geek. I'm in the process of making my second short movie, ultra low budget, on a DV camera (GL2/XM2).
My problem is I'm stuck with either shooting in daylight with a reflector or nothing at all. I might have made the mistake of setting most of the movie in the night and now I have no way of lighting the night scenes. What makes it worse is the fact that they're action scenes, and so it makes light all that more important.
My question is is there any way I can bring a portable light system to an outdoor set, without using a generator or knocking on a neighbour's door and asking them if we can feed off their power with a 500 foot cable. I'm recieving a set of soft boxes soon so maybe that could do something in the way of lighting?
What I see a lof of movies do in night scenes is rig a very high-powered lamp a couple dozen feet up, casting a blanket of light onto the set and bringing more detail to the shot. I've noticed without that my shots at night look quite forlorn and amateurish, and this is an even tougher problem in terms of portability and affordability. I've thought of using a 200W halogen lamp attached to a ladder to make do for scenes we can perform near a crew-member's home, but that can only work so far, and is not really a portable solution...
Please please, I hope you geniuses can whip up a solution for me! The deadline is drawing near and the crew grows impatient...
Thanks so much, and once again thanks to MattinSTL for referring me to this website!
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