How do you achieve green and red light?

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leaftors

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What type of gels would you use? And what would be the difference if you used 3200k or 5600k rated light with those gels?
 
Using theatre prime color gels will give strongest effect. especially thru PAR lamp units. THey are 3200ish so if the camer awas balanced to 3200...that would work best also.
 
Rosco 26 is the classic horror red. Greens are in the R70ish range? Grab yourself a Rosco sample book, they give them out for free or very cheap and they have all sorts of colours.

http://www.rosco.com/filters/index.cfm

Look through their resources there. Unless you are using gel for colour temperature changes, you can use standard theatre gel which is available in every city
 
I did a film shoot a couple weeks ago where I needed a good "red". Balanced for daylight, but used a red LED source. Came out perfectly. We had also looked at one of the heat lamps and that gave a nice glow, but it was still 80F here in FL and that was a scene that was going to take all day. So... no. :)
 
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