What's your Horrorfest Lighting kit?

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The cinematography was one of the best elements in this fest. I want to invest in some more kit for my next production and I wondered what people had used in this one.

Some shorts like Stricken, Rekindled, Bloody Mary and a lot more all looked the bees knees..... What did you use, and what did other people use to get their shots to look as horiffic as they could?


I'll start, for Halfway I had :

1 dimable 50w pin spot
3 (normal kitchen type) flourescents on dimmers (creates the flicker!)
1 30W strobe light
1 25W UV light.

I'd be really interested to hear what everyone else had.
 
'Broken Circle'

On-set
1 - 2k Arri - Behind the clock
40 - Candles (should have been double wick!)
1 800w Photonbeard (Behind the crack of the door)

I should have got the others up!
 
(3) 650w
(3)1000w (didn't use em once though)
Small pepper kit, 100w, 300w, 500w
4x4 kino, 4x1 kino
Other small assorted lights for fill or something special.
 
1, 750W
2, 500W omnis (one w/ barn doors, one with soft box)
1, 250W
black foam core
bounce card
gels
black felt
gaffer tape
clamps
makeshift c-stands
aluminum foil
...
 
4 - 500w Fresnels
8 - 1k par64s
2 - 750w 6x9s
12 - 20-35w music stand lights
3 - home made dimmers
assorted top hats, barn doors, gobos
black wrap, gels up the butt
rope light
and ladders!

Can you tell I come from theatre???
 
"Memories"

Briteks and AutoPoles.
Mostly 650's and 300's.
1K to push some daylight through the window in the kitchen.
Blue gels. Diffusion. Blackwrap.
Black trash bags and gaff tape for blocking windows.
Etc.
 
Thanks HybridCreation. I appreciate it!

And I guess, I should state that my arsenal of lights is what I have, NOT what I used on I.D. (hell, that would have burnt my camera up!)

:grin:
 
Aram Bauman said:
I think its the eye of the DP not the contents of the light kit.
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I couldn't agree more. I've lost count of how many hollywood films I've seen that have crappy cinematography (framing, angles, overall shot decisions) but if you were to pause and analyze any specific shot you'd say, "the lighting itself looks good, I like that shadow falloff...some nice edge lighting there...some 'and on and on..."
 
i used a 60 watt red lightbulb in a worklight, two sets of 500w fresnels and of course, the sun. i also used the LED light from a computer monitor to get that "creepy-internet-stalker-glare"
 
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