Hello to everyone at Cinematography.com
This is my first so I'll give a little about myself. I'm a graduate from a tiny film school in Ireland with 16mm training and video training. I'm currently attempting to break into Irleand's similarly tiny film industry. Or more like Ireland RED industry, the way things are going .
I am currently working with a local theatre company as their general "video guy". My main duties are that of a lighting cameraman. I need to shoot a static image of a sports car, something like a subaru imprezza (see attachment), against a black backdrop. The budget is low, and my city, Cork, has one rental facility that caters towards micro-budget stuff, and no studio facilities to speak of. So I'm considering using a warehouse with lots of skylights and erecting a black backdrop, as I've been told that cars are mainly lit from overhead by soft light such as through a silk for the main source, and then have their lines and curves built up by smaller sources such as kino flos/diva lites. Any input from someone with experience in this field would be greatly appreciated.
I'd also like to clear something up for myself: The lighting jargon varies from country to country, so when people say diva light, that's what I call a kino flow, which to me means a two or four tube fluorescent daylight balanced light that opens like a book, also known as a book light. What is the most commonly used term for this type of light, as I have been using the term kino flow.
My thanks in advance, Cian Daly