Sakari Suuronen

Thanks for the answer. Today I consulted one cinematographer and he had intresting ideas and we basically changed all the blueprints of the studio... I'm not sure yet what the others think o it, but I think the new blueprints are tho most practial and cheapest. Does anyone have any experiences about the Dexel Volcano Fresnel 650W? They are a lot cheaper than the Arri's, and I'm hoping we could have soeme of those. Also, if and when I have time, I'm trying to build a poor man's kinoflow. The cinematographer told me he once build three sets of flueresent light tubes for 5K's and combined them so it was alltogether 15K's of flueresent light! That's quite impressive. The other lights are going to be just construction lights and I also have an idea about one preticular Ikea lamp I saw the other day... We'll see. I can post the blueprints with notes when I have time and also take some pictures of the building process. But still, if anyone has any useful ideas witch can be executed with a really low budget please contribute. Thanks!

The Ledlight is coming strong in the US I see. We saw an ad with my friend and we were' immidetialy exited about these. I haven't seen these Ledlights in Finland yet. I'm a big fan of kinoflows. What's the main difference between Ledlight and kinoflow? Is the ledlight faster to use? An engineer stopped by where I work and saw the ad for the ledlight and then he told me that you could "quite" easily build your own ledlight for a fraction of the official ledlight's cost. Of course it's not the same thing but it sounded intresting.

Hi! We're building a small studio for a local cable tv station and the available space is 7 meters x 6.,5 meters and the height is 2,6 meters. We have a really small budget, some thousand euros (exact amount is not yet confirmed). We're mostly doing talks shows, with usally some sort of musical performance. What kind of tungsten lightning would you suggest for this kind of space? We're really on a small budget, and most of the money goes to the actual work, of building the mini-studio there. We have most of our old sets which we can bring from the old one. Some lighning also, one 2000W softlight and some construction lights maybe 600w). I'm thinking of using these construction lights as a hair light by hanging them from the cealing with wires. There is also a slight possibility of getting one set of Ianiro's redheads but it can take a while. I'm thinking of buying some old lightning from a local rental house, if they have anything else than HMI. The price is one of the main factors. I'm thinking we're not needing bigger lights than maxium 1K. I've also checked out some now Arri's 650w, those are quite cheap. Maybe couple of these, and the old lights and we could start shooting, cause the last studio we had was so small that you couldn't possibly need that much of lightning. Also this project is really in a hurry, so all construction material decisions must be ready at friday, since the CO is leaving for a holiday after that... The number of guests in the talk shows vary from 2-5, usually 2. Very simple backgrounds. Usually with three cameras. My mainn concern is the height, which is really low 2,6 meters. But then again, the guests usually sit, and the shots are also quite tight, so I'm hoping we can manage. I did some test shots and I'm thinking we can pull it off! Anyway, the new studio is going to be a huge improvement to this channel and I'm really trying to do my very best on this project. So guys, if you have any recomendations, I'm all ears. (If I have time this week... I can post some pictures of the room were transforming into studio.)