Matt Dennie

I was wondering if anyone had a table of IRE values for exposure of people in various conditions like night int. with ambient room light and ext. with moonlight , daytime. Side question: should "night" footage be exposed normally and brought down in post, or underexposed in camera?

I know most lights over 2K have this plug, my question is what do you plug it into? Generators make enough power, but it seems they only have normal sockets on them. Is this where an electrician comes in?

It's a little crude and harsh, though that sort of fits the tone, but that hard key light doesn't necessarily simulate anything practical. If this is a daytime (morning) scene, you first have to ask yourself if the room lights would be on, and if so, would there be a color difference with the exterior light.

I completely agree with you here. I do like to keep the lights motivated, I guess that's what practice is for.

I have decided to film at least one shot/scene every week regardless of if I have any real film projects, mainly to practice lighting because I am inexperienced. I lit this with a 1K Mickey Mole as the rim/key light and a 500W halogen work light coming in through the window. The overhead lights were dimmed to fit the scene. I wish I had brought my baby solarspot to shoot through the window instead of using the work lights. My main question is how much power would I need to get a good "morning sun" effect though the windows? I'm guessing 2K.

I've screwed around a little with my 5d MKII and the ISO on it is great even at really high levels 3200 ISO even. I can go down to 1/30th of my shutter — I've been wondering how the shutter works with video.... so my Canon 5d MKII is set to 24p. So I should be shooting with my shutter at 1/48th and then adjust aperture to taste? I like 24p as I like that "film" look.

Keep your shutter at 1/50 for 24p (it's close enough to 1/48). And keep the ISO at 1600 or below. Anything higher will look terrible in full resolution.

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or just call modern studio supply and seno will make one for you.

Thanks, modern studio supply had just the right product.

I have been looking all over the internet for one of these. Do you know where I can find one? Its a 5/8 light stand on top, and a female 3/8 non threaded on bottom. I can only seem to find ones made for threaded lights stands. It's for a light stand that has a non threaded 3/8" mount.

It would help if you could specify what kind of equipment you have access to; lights, camera, modifiers etc. Also, just because it is a 4 second shot, doesn't mean you can get away with bad lighting.

I would suggest at least 2, 1K diffused lights on both sides of your subjects. Keep the people away from the wall and open up your aperture. I used to do these kind of shots in a photo class. We lit the background separately with 2 lights coming in at angles to take care of the inverse square stuff, and lit a 1:1 ratio on the subject with a large diffuser. The out of focus background helps clean up those dirty walls. Pulling this off with 2 lights would be a challenge.

Ok, thanks. I used to use halogen work lights before I got this equipment and they had the safety glass, that's why I was concerned. I'm glad I don't have to worry about giving people skin cancer. :)

I was recently loaned a decent amount of mole-richerdson lights and one of them is a mickey-mole. It uses a halogen bulb and I was wondering about the safety of that. I have heard that halogen bulbs need to be shielded with UV glass, and the light I have is just open faced.

I will be shooting a film in a few weeks and one of the scenes is in this large room:

There will be dialogue shots between two actors sitting in the seats, as well as an instructor at the front of the room. The setting is a film classroom. I have a very limited amount of lighting equipment and am looking for suggestions on lighting this room. I have 2 1k softboxes (2700K and 6500K bulbs for each), a homemade 2k light (2700K), (2) 1k halogens, (3) 250w halogens, and a clamp light. There are can lights in the ceiling that are 2700K and the main room lighting is made of florescent lights from 1980 (they look awful). The projector will be on (only displaying a still image). The room starts out with the lights "off" and as the instructor enters the room he turns them on.

I am currently thinking to bring the whole room up in ambiance with the halogens bouncing off the walls or ceiling and lighting the two actors with colder light from the softboxes to highlight them from the rest of the students. What are your ideas?

Does anyone know where I can find more diagrams and examples like in this thread?

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?144978-DVXuser-s-Lighting-Setup-Examples

I find it very helpful to see how certain shots are set up. Most of what I find on the internet is just basic 3 point setups.

Background: I am currently 19 years old at my local community college. I have started a film club and we are working on a feature length film. Before this I have only made one film in a 48 hour film festival. I enjoy being the DP and I am interested in directing at some point. We are planning on submitting the film we are currently working on to some film festivals. I have been debating the value of film school recently and am leaning towards not going, especially since I have learned a lot in the photography program I was in at my school. It seems that the most important things I would gain from film school are industry connections and experience. I am stuck in Spokane, Washington where the film industry almost doesn't exist.

Questions: Do you think film school is worth it to me given the above circumstances?

How should I go about finding paying jobs?

Have you heard of North by Northwest? Maybe they could help.

I would like to get down to Los Angeles at some point, it seems like there are a lot of jobs down there. Is that true?

I was wondering how hard it would be coming out of film school and trying to get a job that will pay enough to keep me afloat. Right now I am thinking about working towards being a DP. Also, if nobody kills me for asking two different questions on the same thread, is there a typical "ladder" you need to climb up towards being a DP?