Oskar Arnarson

Thank you all for your replies :) Really helpful! Learned a lot from this. All the best!

Hi, lighting is not my strongest aspect. What I'm about to shoot is basically one person sitting in a red or blue cinema seat. Background is simply the other seats. I want it to be rather soft, but not too soft, with a visible hairlight. It should be somewhat corporate but not too much. This is for a film school. I want the customers to read it as "If I apply to this school, my film will be screened in an actual theater" (which is the case. That's why the interviews take place inside a cinema. I have access to multiple lights, red heads, kinos.. etc. I was wondering, since I am about to shoot interviews that take place inside a cinema, does anybody have an ideal lighting setup in mind? Would I use the ceiling lights on the location? I prefer not to. My initial idea was to get a kino as a keylight, a red head light bounced off a reflector as the fill. And then one other red head as the hairlight. Maybe one extra red head to be a backlight? Any ideas?

It would be nice to be able to have the camera tracking. The only thing that crosses the sky is a shooting star.

Thanks for the reply. Really appreciate it. I am wondering whether this matte painting technique isn't all done in post nowadays? Thanks.

Wondering if you have a minute to spare... I need to do a scene in a movie, with a starry sky, on a 5D. I know you can do very nice timelapses and fully expose the stars in the sky by taking pictures, but what if this was a POV shot? The sky can't be moving but I need to see the stars. If I were to use a photo, I'd lose the twinkle and it'd be very obvious that it's a photo.. So.. Any way to get a clear, well exposed video of a static night sky on a 5D? Is there maybe a way to animate the pixels within a photo, so it looks like video? And then maybe animate the twinkle in after effects... Or how do you think it's best to go about this? Oh and actually, it would be best if I could do a shot with actors in it and stars as well... I just sort of thought it was impossible without some special effects in post production. How do they usually record space in movies, like the scene in Wayne's World where Garth and Wayne are lying on top of Wayne's car and watching the stars as Garth whistles a tune from Star Trek? Is it actual footage of the sky? Thanks, really appreciate it.

Thank you all so much for your input. Your advice has helped! Thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm new on here and just recently started film school. Lighting isn't my strong side yet so I was wondering if you could give me any tips on how to light a car. - It's the inside of a stationary car - This will be shot far away from any houses (electricity) - I want to have it raining. Would a water can work? :) If I'm not far from a lake? - The weather here in Iceland is something like this nowadays: http://www.noaura.com/nz/images/09/ttoa02.jpg - so probably gray skies. - There might be snow, I don't know because it's constantly changing. - Will be shot in the morning / daytime - It's a horror scene - one driver and one backseat passanger (a little girl) - the windows will be steamy (any tip to get them to constantly blur from steam, even a few seconds after you wipe the moist off?) - Will be shooting on a sony PMW-EX1 plus I hope to be using a DIY DOF adapter. I know this will effect the light that the camera picks up but I figured that would be okay for this rather creepy scene. I really want to achieve a shallow focus for this scene. Just wanted to know what would be good for this. With minimal cost. I could borrow lights from school but the electricity is a problem. For now I figure I could maybe shine a little blue light from the gauges in the car. Maybe a little green from the CD player. Kind of hard to see in daylight maybe. I wonder what I could put in the ceiling to emulate the car's top light. Somewhere I saw someone suggest fairy lights. Would it work in daylight? I intend to use a small, bright white light behind the actors heads for backlighting. But please tell me if I'm talking out of my ass. I don't have a lot of experience with lighting, that's why I'm hoping to get tips. Thanks a lot.