black light for glow in the Dark paint and make-up

[jambredz]

The next shoot I have they are interested in using blacklight or (UV light?) To illuminate glow in the dark make up. I highly doubt normal UV light from the party lighting company will illuminate the make up for a proper exposure...so is there a gel that can be put over kinos to achieve this? I don't really know about this. Its for a music video and a club scene.

 

[RyanT]

You can get kino flos with blacklight tubes in them. It's a pretty specialized item though and I'm not too sure about rental houses in Jamaica, do you have much out there in the way of rentals?

Otherwise we rented these lights called wildfires from a party rental place. They were like fresnel blacklights, pretty weird and really heavy, but they worked well. Might look into those.

 

[jambredz]

Thanks Ryan...I'm gonna go down to the party lighting store to see what they got.

 

[Tvdie23]

Party lighting store should have those 4' T12 Black Light Fluorescent too. Last time when we shoot the party scene, we use mixture of Black Light and UV light on the Kino since blacklight doesn't give enough exposure.