Help: Which Light Stand for this Bracket?

[Homunculus]

jesus 23 feet? why in the heck would you need a monster like that?


by the way, but why would one shoot in Tungsten balance film stock outdoors? Wouldn't that give your outdoors a very cool / blue unnatural look with unnatural skin tone etc?

 

[PerroneFord]

jesus 23 feet? why in the heck would you need a monster like that?

It's all about angles. This is where the high school trig most people slept through, comes into play. I'll give you a clue. Let's say you are shooting on a set which is 15ftx15ft. And your actors are sitting at a table, and you want the light to appear that it's coming from the ceiling. How high do you place the light to get the shadows correct?

Now assume the set is 30x30. How high does the light have to be now?

by the way, but why would one shoot in Tungsten balance film stock outdoors? Wouldn't that give your outdoors a very cool / blue unnatural look with unnatural skin tone etc?

This is like asking why one person would drive Ferrari, and another a Porsche. Both are excellent, but they have a very different feel. Tungsten film and daylight film aren't built the same, and they respond to light in different ways. Many cinematographers prefer how tungsten film responds to light. Some just have a TON more experience with tungsten based film and on a $50M movie, they go with what they are most comfortable with.

As for how it looks, film guys do the same thing you do when moving from inside to outside. They "white balance" the camera. We do it electronically, they use a filter on the lens. Same thing. In fact, the lens filter is a LOT cleaner way to do it, and I'd prefer to do it that way if I could. I probably will for my next film since all light sources will be under my control.