Rodney Charters ASC discusses lighting gear. OUTSTANDING.

David G. Smith

David G. Smith

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From IBC 2013, The News Shooter interview with Rodney Charters ASC. He gives some pretty specific answers about his lighting gear. He is a fan of using 1K PAR lights. I like that.

 
Rodney Charters always seems to be a very down to earth kinda guy. Lots of valuable information there. Thanks for that post.
 
Ian-T said:
Rodney Charters always seems to be a very down to earth kinda guy. Lots of valuable information there. Thanks for that post.
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Oh I know. I am actually not that familiar with his work, except for "24", which I watched infrequently. However, I became a fan when I first ran across videos of him discussing filmmaking on the web. The first I saw of him was this very causal video of him with UK filmmakers Drew Gardner and Lan Bui discussing the virtues of the Canon C300 on New Years day 2012. The three of them are sitting around a kitchen drinking Scotch with a C300 in front of them. I love his approach to filmmaking, especially his fondness for embracing mixed lighting. Here are the videos. There is a lot there.



 
BTW, here is the Shane Hurlbut blog post that I think that he was talking about in the original video. It is about the Hive Lighting plasma lights. The lights are amazing, but very, very expensive.

http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2013/09/hive-lighting-plasma-lights/

Here is the Hive Lighting website:

http://www.hivelighting.com/

I really love, in the original video, that Rodney Charters is a big fan of the 1K PAR can light. I picked up 4 of them several years ago off of eBay from these guys and paid about $27.00 a piece for the fixtures. I have found 1k bulbs for around $25.00. I highly recommend anybody doing fictional narrative, or other creative lighting film work, to pick up some. They are, IMO, the best bang for the buck, for pure light output, an Indy filmmaker can get in a light. Pick up some TVMP yoke to stand adapters and you have a great high out put light that is stand mountable for very little $$$. The Avenger E390 TVMP is my favorite. It is very heavy duty.
 
David G. Smith said:
Oh I know. I am actually not that familiar with his work, except for "24", which I watched infrequently. However, I became a fan when I first ran across videos of him discussing filmmaking on the web. The first I saw of him was this very causal video of him with UK filmmakers Drew Gardner and Lan Bui discussing the virtues of the Canon C300 on New Years day 2012. The three of them are sitting around a kitchen drinking Scotch with a C300 in front of them. I love his approach to filmmaking, especially his fondness for embracing mixed lighting. Here are the videos. There is a lot there.



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If my screen correctly represents the colors of their faces... I think a bit too much whiskey has been consumed... but perhaps it just the trademarked 'violet/magenta' cast that some Canon folks like...

I will of course watch the videos when I can have the sound up...
 
Well, it is early in the morning on New Years... and they are consuming a good bit of Scotch. Mr. Charters does get a bit squinty eyed at times. Makes for good conversation. His opinion on the C-300 has evolved. I saw another video where he complains about the 8 bit banding, but he has been using it pretty regularly. I think he is pretty much an Alexa A camera guy now from what I can tell.
 
Here are some other videos I found from Rodney Chaters that are pretty good.

From NAB 2013, single interview:


From NAB 2013, with Philip Bloom and some folks from Go-Pro (Rodney crashes the interview):


From NAB 2013, a presentation of his work. Not great quality video:


From 2009, two parter on lighting an consumer DSL video, ect.



From 2011, on lighting for photographers shooting video:

 
David G. Smith said:
I really love, in the original video, that Rodney Charters is a big fan of the 1K PAR can light. I picked up 4 of them several years ago off of eBay from these guys and paid about $27.00 a piece for the fixtures. I have found 1k bulbs for around $25.00. I highly recommend anybody doing fictional narrative, or other creative lighting film work, to pick up some. They are, IMO, the best bang for the buck, for pure light output, an Indy filmmaker can get in a light. Pick up some TVMP yoke to stand adapters and you have a great high out put light that is stand mountable for very little $$$. The Avenger E390 TVMP is my favorite. It is very heavy duty.
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I have read about the plasma lights and they seem cool but nowhere in my budget...as for those 1k Par lights, lets just say I know what my next paycheck is buying. been looking for something that just has a lot of light output and these things will surely do, and for the price its crazy. Quick question on the 1k Par, whats the difference between a Par 64A and Par 64B?

Also will have to watch this video later, need sleep and this video will pass the time in class tomorrow :P
 
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