lightning a fireplace scene

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naavt

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Hello all,

Can someone share some info on how to emulate a fireplace flicker light without any costing equipment?

Thanks in advance
 
bounce a red, yellow, and orange light off of a silver reflector. You must crinkle and wave the reflector fast enough to make the light flicker onto whatever surface your shooting. I've shot a film with this effect with decent results.
 
Zblock said:
bounce a red, yellow, and orange light off of a silver reflector. You must crinkle and wave the reflector fast enough to make the light flicker onto whatever surface your shooting. I've shot a film with this effect with decent results.
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You could put a small fan on the sheets of reflective color material to give it a little more 'random' motion, and save having to actually manually manipulate it while shooting...
 
Gel the light orange or yellow. Fill up a water bottle two thirds and swish it in front of the light for effect.
 
Thanks a lot for the inputs. I think I'm going to try every method mentioned and figure out what's best :)
 
Some of those methods will generate noise, so you also need to consider how your audio will be recorded.
 
clang said:
Some of those methods will generate noise, so you also need to consider how your audio will be recorded.
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It's a "no dialog" movie and that particular scene will only have the fireplace sound which will be post produced, so no hassles in that department :)
 
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