Jamie Wightman

Thank you everyone, your suggestions have been invaluable. It looks like i'm going to go with space lights and 5ks though 6x6 diff frames. Kino's for the talent. Stuart your mention of negative fill is a great pointer, thanks. And Peter and Christopher cheers for the H&S mention. Manu - i will check that film asap, sounds like a perfect reference and your white cyc and limbo link confirmed my ideas. Many thanks everyone, fantastic forum.

Hi everyone, I am hoping someone out there might be able to give me some pointers on a studio lighting setup i am going to undertake in a months time. I am a TV documentary cameraman with medium lighting experience but this job is a little outside my usual stuff. I will be shooting a series of idents of different setups involving babies doing various things in a soft white enviroment (think Pampers commercials etc). Surprise surprise there isn't much of a budget on this gig which is probably why i'm doing it so no big promo/commercial budget - i imagine iwill end up shooting it on digibeta. I think i am going to get a white studio ideally with an overhead lighting rig to provide a soft even fill light. A number of kinoflo for more soft directional keying and a few fresnel for back lighting and kicks. The style will be fairly abstract - limited depth of field soft white background colourful props. That is how isee it in my mind anyway. Is there anyone here who can see what i'm getting at and let me know if they think i've got it totally back to front. Are there any first pager, pitfalls to look out for etc. I could really do with a recommeded kit list and any other creative ideas would be gratefully recieved too. Thanks a million guys Jamie