Brin Hill

Yeah are color palette has warmer colors so maybe ill try throwing some yellows or light oranges in there. That picture does not really do it justice but I'm also turning off all of the christmas lights due to flicker issues.

Thanks for you help.

Ronald,

Thanks for your input. Thats exactly what I was thinking. I now have 2 more 300 watt soft boxes making that a total of 4 soft boxes. I plan on lighting 3/4 of the entire area so I'm thinking of maybe getting 2 x 4banks and extend them from the 2nd floor using boom poles attached to C-stands to act as natural fluorescent lights which should cover the area that I need lit.

Also, I'm not going to show the second floor only because thats where the lights will be held. Ideally I would mount the 4banks to the ceiling and mask them as on-location lighting but thats way out of budget. I would love to show people cheering up on that 2nd floor to take advantage of the location, so maybe I will cheat a series of cut away shots but in reference to the purple rim lighting - it may not be necessary however I will experiment with it.

Thanks for you suggestions.

As you can see from the picture below, I'm lighting a bowling alley that has a wide range of color temperatures and minimal lighting from above. My goal is to give the environment a brighter feel because the genre of the film is comedy and there is no need for contrast or motivated shadows in this scene. There is an entire bowling showdown where I would have to light for roughly 30 people in the back ground and foreground. On my very tight budget, I have:

2 - 300 watt fluorescent soft boxes

$100 for rentals

Im thinking of getting an Arri kit with a 650 and 1K and a 4bank or kino-flo to hang overtop of the actors.

Any suggestions?

THANKS!

P.S. We are shooting on DSLR's and I planned on shooting at 800 ISO or less.