Lighting in my apartment

[Mark-P]

I want to shoot some video interviews in my apartment using Kinos.

1. ) What should I do to block out light coming from my windows? ND gels taped to the windows?

2.) What should I do if some lights spills through the windows? Is this what the orange gels on the lights are for?

Thanks.

 

[RyanT]

Do you see the windows?

If so, you can find some ND .6 + CTO gels that you can tape over your windows. This will knock it down to a level that you can probably match inside, plus, the CTO part of it will balance it to your tungsten balanced lights.

One question though, are you running daylight or tungsten balanced bulbs? If you've got daylight balanced bulbs, you don't need the CTO part of that, just the ND.

If you want to just black it out, usually you just use duvetyne, but any sort of fabric thing will work. Heck, I've used blankets before. As long as it's totally opaque, you're good.

 

[Mark-P]

The windows are not actually going to be seen in the video, though light spilling out from them will affect the video.

1. Why use both ND and the CTO gels on the windows if I am using Tungsten bulbs?
2. I have access to both daylight and tungsten bulbs.

Thanks!

 

[RyanT]

1. They have a gel that is ND and CTO all in one. The reason to use CTO is to gel the incoming daylight to match the color temperature of your tungsten bulbs.

2. If you have access to both, consider just using the daylight bulbs and then just maybe ND'ing the windows a bit if you need to bring it down. Should work out good.