Car Interior at Night - Lighting Issues

[Young-H._Lee]

Have a shoot coming up and will need to film actors inside a moving vehicle at night. Anyone see Collateral and knows a cheap way to produce enough diffuse light?

I was thinking of taking mini china lanterns and holding a flashlight in them...

any ideas/help appreciated!!

thanks

 

[khmuse]

A portable fluorescent lantern or two inside of a pair of china balls should work just fine for a decent amount of diffused light.

http://www.coleman.com/coleman/ColemanCom/subcategory.asp?CategoryID=1045

 

[J.R. Hudson]

Hi Young!

Maybe a simple car-adaptor plug and a twisty floro light clamped right to the dash?

 

[Daniel Skubal]

Another way of doing it is making a small fluorescent bank and hooking it up to a car inverter. In collateral, they had some special thin light pads that could be stuck to the car and moved around... I think they used velcro to stick it to the ceiling... but yeah, that's another way of doing it.

 

[Daniel Skubal]

Aww John, you undercut my post! lol

 

[Young-H._Lee]

great ideas!

Hi John! Yea, havent been around for a while...

muse and dj, ill go get those port. fluoros, thanks

cool, thanks guys

 

[J.R. Hudson]

LOL Gotta be quicker that around here!

Yes; in Collateral they used LCD lite panels. (Like the kind on Cell phones but custom made and bigger!) and they Velcroed (sp?) them on

 

[Barry_S]

Dude--when you borrow the car mount, I'll give you a small fluoro that plugs into the lighter socket. Just remind me.

 

[adderx99]

im not too sure if this is what you guys were thinking of, but its what came to my mind.....
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-z6JfOD8CfPR/cgi-bin/ProdGroup.asp?g=185550&avf=N

ive never tried it, but id be fun to see your results when your finished. im not too sure the light output would be enough though.

plus, you have the added benefit of having a pimped ride....