Any Website For Viewing hollywood Lighting setups?

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Ianb123

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I was wondering if there was any place where there are lots of behind the scenes pictures of hollywood films. I want to look at how they achieve their looks.
 
the very same way they achieve the look on low budget films - a light is a light. The difference is that on a low budgeter where you are short on big lights, power to power those, crew to set those up you make creative compromises or take forever to set-up (which is not smart either as no film is about lighting only).
 
Ianb123 said:
I was wondering if there was any place where there are lots of behind the scenes pictures of hollywood films. I want to look at how they achieve their looks.
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When I watch the behind the scenes special features, I often freeze frame on wide shots of the set to look at the 'lighting' set up.

Often the BHS stuff sounds more like puff pieces, but if you step through some frame by frame, you can see how things are done on set.

Last year at NAB i picked up the following book:

Motion Picture and Video Lighting by Blain Brown

It has a number of diagrams of major set lighting... now if you can afford a 150 KW generator in the middle of a forest... But you can get the idea about how fully funded sets are lit, and make estimates of how to go about lighting your own. There are a number of 'simple' easily achievable setups with lights ordinary mortals can rent...

As for an OnLine version, I don't have a URL handy...
 
Yeah I was going to say check out AC Mag, the featured films usually have the DP talk about a couple different set ups with pictures to go along with it. But the short answer is that they have the power to use a lot more lights and they have the grip gear to control it and the time to do it (usually).
 
PhilJackson said:
Yeah I was going to say check out AC Mag, the featured films usually have the DP talk about a couple different set ups with pictures to go along with it. But the short answer is that they have the power to use a lot more lights and they have the grip gear to control it and the time to do it (usually).
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Well, I think you can learn quite a bit from looking at these major setups. The question that you have to ask yourself, is how can I get a look, with limited resources...

So, you may not try to light up a whole forest, or a large 'set', but still you can think about how to light a small set, use avaiable light, etc.

There are any number of things that one 'can't' afford relative to the majors... whether it is camera, sound, talent in front of the camera, or behind the camera for that matter... you want 'slomo'... you're probably not going to have the bucks to rent a Phantom... but you can understand the limitations of shooting at 60p, and getting what you get with it...

I mention that camera, because I'm seeing more productions where it seems to be used quite abit... oh, yeah, and with the Phantom, one needs a far more light to use it as well, so it is not just renting the camera...
 
Check out the ASC Reflections series. In their articles, and the associated book by the same name, they show frame grabs from the camera used during instruction, a drafted plan view of the lighting set up and various other on-set pictures. I used to devour those articles.
 
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