spewing colored light outside in the background

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nickbeef

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I was watching this video for Kendrick Lamar and because it uses such bright primary colors, it drew my attention to some of the background lighting interestingly used in an outdoor setting.

Check out the video from the 1:10 point on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aShfolR6w8

Now normally a lot of the background elements would just be in darkness, but as you can see, they use crazy red lights, green lights, pink lights to just spew color into background objects. I think this would be great for outdoor shooting at night, although perhaps using more naturalistic colors.

But here's my question: The lights seem powerful, I'm guessing at least 1K, and they don't seem very directional at all, so probably not fresnels. I'm guessing just some kind of open face light with a gel on it. But in my experience 1K open faced lights like the Lowel Total would almost instantly melt a gel put in front of it, especially if i just wanted to mount the lights low to the ground and basically have them point up, spewing haphazardly. Perhaps the solution might be to use something like an open faced PAR can (not sure what they are called, perhaps Cine Queen or Mole PARs), but still how would I gel them so they don't just melt right away?
 
Check into color mixing LED washes like the color kinetics color blast (single unit) or blaze (strip light) or even a moving head like the Martin Aura. You'd also need a dmx controller board to operate them. These would be rental items unless you have deep pockets to purchase.
 
I haven't used the tota gel holder, but like I said I have attached gels to the tota's side "wings" and the gel melted quickly in the center, even though I bulged the gel out in a large arc, and the light was fixed almost horizontally. I'm worried that pointing the tota almost vertical with a gel over it, would be a bad idea, unless I could get the gel more then a foot away.

That's why I was thinking that perhaps a PAR flood might be cooler (I have no idea, just the inclosed light makes me think this), or perhaps the solution might be to aim the light down at a mirror and just place a gel on top of it? Do these sound like viable solutions?

dwiener, I'm going to guess that buying used open faces is going to be a helluva lot cheaper then powerful color changing LED's. A good solution for some, just out side of my budget at this point.
 
nickbeef said:
dwiener, I'm going to guess that buying used open faces is going to be a helluva lot cheaper then powerful color changing LED's. A good solution for some, just out side of my budget at this point.
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Cheaper to buy yes. But they can also be rented as can the PAR cans. If you're not going to use them regularly it's cheaper to rent than buy.
 
nickbeef said:
dwiener, I'm going to guess that buying used open faces is going to be a helluva lot cheaper then powerful color changing LED's. A good solution for some, just out side of my budget at this point.
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To buy yes. To rent no. Especially if your not going to use it on a regular basis. Some o the cheap dj/club units out there might even do the trick. try searching ebay
 
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