lighting for a car

[Guest Sprocket14]

hello all,

 

My situation is I have an actor crouching on the floor in the back of the car hiding from the driver. It's a comedy shot on betaSP. Will daylight be enough? I'm thinking just use careful bouncing. But I'd like to hear other suggestions.

[Jon Rosenbloom]

ND gels for the windows, tape for the gel. Tape, or use some safety pins, bleached muslin to the cieling and bounce a pocket par into the muslin.

[Guest Sprocket14]

ND gels for the windows, tape for the gel. Tape, or use some safety pins, bleached muslin to the cieling and bounce a pocket par into the muslin.

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Sorry but I'm still new to this. What is a bleach muslin and a pocket par?

[Rik Andino]

A Pocket Par is a type of light

It is a small portable HMI light (daylight balanced)

It can be powered by your car battery--so it's perfect for shooting CAR--INT.

 

A Bleached Muslin is a heavy white cotton cloth

You can use it to bounce light, & it's also pretty affordable ($5 bucks a yard).

 

 

However I recommend a simpler method

Don't gel the windows allow as much light possible

Get a Pocket Par

Or better yet I prefer MINIFLOS (portable KINOFLOS)

And use them to light the INT.

 

It's very important:

Try to get a good balance between the EXT. and the INT.

I believe having the EXT. 2 stops higher than the INT. is good. (at least for film)

I would shoot a test to see how that would look on DigiBeta

And also have a well calibrated monitor on set--it'll help.

 

Good Luck

[Guest Sprocket14]

Awsome, thanx for the help guys.

[Rodrigo Llano]

A cheep solution when you have a low budget is a cars ND. You could buy it in a car supply store and you will have an emergency solution. Obvously is less clear than the profesional ND , but work well., specially if you shoot on video , because of the resolution