Leelon Daniel Scott

So, I've been thinking about my lighting design some more. How easy is it for a silk to burn? Thanks.

I wish that were true, unfortunately I was slightly misleading (by mistake). The CAMERA rental (excluding stock/processing/transfer) is 550.00/day. The full HD camera I wanted to use is 1500.00/day. I'm thinking due to my budget I will be shooting on HDV simply because I forgot to factor in so much. Making movies is expensive. :(

I wish that were true, unfortunately I was slightly misleading (by mistake). The CAMERA rental (excluding stock/processing/transfer) is 550.00/day. The full HD camera I wanted to use is 1500.00/day. I'm thinking due to my budget I will be shooting on HDV simply because I forgot to factor in so much. Making movies is expensive. :(

I would love to, but it rents out for the entire amount of my production budget per day plus I want to get experience with 16mm. What about finding a 1st AC to have loading done for me? Damn the budget. =[

Thank you so much for the quick replies. What I mean is that I want to separate the subject from the background. If everything is evenly lit, the subjects would blend into the background. What I want to do is establish the depth of the room and that it is in-fact a room, not just a white space. The way I think I can do that is by establishing a light gradient down the wall. I also want to make the space feel very small so by lighting it in that way, I would establish that. What I mean by "gray light" behind the character (the doctor) is that I want him to appear different from the patient in a very slight way though light. I've never shot on film before, apart from a test shot where I had someone do pretty much everything for me, so I want to experiment to broaden my skills in filmmaking. Film is crazy expensive and way out of my budget, but I think I might be able to swing it with a few friends. I'm not sure though what stock to select if I do shoot on film. I know I should choose an indoor stock (because all of my lights are 3200k), but I don't know if I should use color reversal or negative. I want something with a medium film grain (something noticeable but not like Kodak Vision 2), and I don't want super saturated colors. Now if I did shoot on film, would I absoultly have to do that effect in camera or could I do it in post? Thank you guys again so very much. My school doesn't offer ANY film courses at all - its all video - so I'm definitely in strange waters here.

I am a student shooting a short film and am looking for some advise. I have some experience in lighting and understand the basics of how to light, what instruments to use, etc. The film I'm shooting will be set in a 10 x 10 ft room, which is to resemble an insane asylum. I want it to feel super unnatural and a little surreal, so I want the lighting to be extremely even. Of course, I want a little gradient on the walls to give depth and separate my subjects from the background, but I want the subjects to feel "odd". I was thinking about putting a silk on top of the room, lighting it with 4 Arri 1k Studios from each corner pointing in (flooded), or placing a standard florescent light (like you would see in a work shop) next to each wall with two in the middle for fill. Inside the room, I would use Arri 350s or 500s all diffused evenly, or with soft-boxes. I don't want too much of a backlight, but on one character I want the light behind him to seem gray. I'm still putting together a budget for this guy so I'm not sure if I want to shoot HDV or 16mm. I don't have a lot of experience with 16, but I know how to measure light and what stock to choose. I don't know how to load or what camera to choose. Some help there would be nice too. Thanks for the help guys.