Help with lighting a scene where a person is running

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alekstef

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Hello all! :)

I am pretty new to lighting. I'm going to shoot a scene where a girl runs through the wood. The question is how should I light it? The girl moves all the time, it wont be easy. In addition, I only have two 500w worklights. Some ideas?

Thanks for all answers,
Aleksander
 
if you're shooting outside, there's always sunlight .. if it's during the day, you can get a person or several people to point reflectors at her .. otherwise, just use natural light (if you can)
 
This is just off the top of my head, so it might seem a bit weird. Or perfect. I dunno:

If you angle the lights correctly, you can get at least two hits out of them (a hit being the light hitting the subject) -- one directly and one from a reflector. That would give you four stabs of light in a run-through. You'd have to do this from several angles/areas and edit appropriately, but I think it could work. For a long tracking shot, I don't think you have the gear needed.
 
Okey, thank you! That is really helpsome! I'll post a clip when I've shot and edited it, so you can see how it went :)
 
That's a toughy. I would use one light high in a tree and add half blue as a rim and use the other (with a soft diffusion such as opel) off two one side of the camera. Shoot ift from many different angles so you can shoot many takes in the same location, then move to another location, rerig and shoot.
Bounce is always great too.

Good Luck!
 
donatello: I will not shoot day for night. Everything else in this film is going to be shot at night, so I can't shoot this at day.

Wilson: Thank you, that's helpful! Tomorrow is the shooting day! Looking forward to shoot this scene, gives some experience!
 
alekstef:

You might also try getting some of your wide/master shots at dusk, when there's still enough light to make out shapes and shadows, but the sky is dark enough to play as night ...

Also, on one of the boards, David Mullen, ASC wrote about lighting a "running through the woods at night" scene lit with paper chinese lanterns and 5600K photoflood bulbs strung high in the trees ...
 
Problem is, here in Norway, in the summer, it's so light outside it looks like it's in the middle of the day, almost.. hehe. Now the clock is 00:33 (30 past 12 in the night), and I think this time is just perfect to shoot on.. But we'll see. Thank you all for your answers! :)
 
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