need Advice for inside lighting gel

[cobraclutch2]

filming interior scenes. Need advice on Gels. I going guerilla. China Balls and Work light with the clip. Any Advice. I have a feeling the work light might be harsh. Any comments would be a great help. thanks in the future.

 

[Gopher_Greene]

You'd have to provide a bit more detail before anyone coiuld give any sort of intelligent feedback or advice. For instance what type of interior scenes, what mood, ant particular looks? That sort of stuff.

 

[FBAS]

To soften the worklights you can use white diffusion (i.e. Lee 216) or Rosco Though Spun. The problem with the worklights is you usually don't have barndoors on them, so it's hard to fix gels to them. If you fix WD gel directly in front of the lamp it might melt or become brown (it won't burn, but it will be unusable) and it won't make the light much softer because to get a softer light source you need to move the gel away from the lamp to make it a larger surface.
With worklights I'd either shoot them at a white cloth (with enough distance so it won't catch fire) to diffuse them or bounce them from a reflector or white wall or ceiling.

Other than that you probably don't necessarily need any gels, you're indoors with no daylight, right? If there is daylight, then you need ctb gels (1/2, 3/4 and full) for your lamps, but you're not going to be happy with that because your lights gelled are not powerful enough to compete with daylight.
So, better get big sheets of CTO gel (preferably with ND, a grey filter that reduces light ) to cover all the windows.

If your script allows it, don't involve any windows, at least not when it's supposed to be day. It will make things a lot easier with only tungsten light. Cover existing windows with black cloth or cardboard, or shoot at night.

ND gels for your lamps might be a good idea, so you can vary the amount of light without changing the color temperature.