Help with acheiving the water lighting effect

[Akpe ododoru]

Can someone please tell me how to get this water effect type lighting we see on the artist "Usher" performing against a black background?

 

From the beginnng of the video we see Usher singing against a black background with a water type lighting on him.

Pls, how is it done?

 

[M Bao]

I am pretty sure I have seen a thread with the answer on this forum.

 

You can achieve it by putting some foil in a container,filling it with water and shining a light into it. Agitate to simulate ripples.

[Akpe ododoru]

I am pretty sure I have seen a thread with the answer on this forum.

 

You can achieve it by putting some foil in a container,filling it with water and shining a light into it. Agitate to simulate ripples.

Thanks for the reply.....its just that this light seems to be coming from above

[Brian Drysdale]

You can achieve a water ripple effect using silver mylar,. Just bounce the light into a slightly crumpled sheet, while twisting it.

[David Mullen ASC]

There is a Rosco projector that creates a water pattern.

 

Or maybe they made a 4x4 water box with a plexi bottom and rigged it to an overhead grid and shined a light through it.

[Freya Black]

You can achieve a water ripple effect using silver mylar,. Just bounce the light into a slightly crumpled sheet, while twisting it.

 

I'm with Brian on this. I've always done it with reflectors by manually moving them to get the right effect.

You can even use different coloured reflective materials to get different colour ripple effects.

(or you could gel the lights too I suppose!)

 

It's kind of fun, you should experiment a bit and see what you can come up with!

 

Freya

Edited August 25, 2013 by Freya Black

[Akpe ododoru]

Thanks guys....i will have to try these out