Dinko Rupcic

Thanks David, as I said I will be shooting on 7218 and I want the contrast later so I was thinking over exsposure will bring it up a notch. My other materials are EXR stocks, sorry that I did not post that. Dinko

Thanks on the suggestions, I really appreciate any help. I know it is hard for you guys if you don't have all the main info on the film to pitch anything so I will explain the situation better. I just thought that one of the guys here did improvized a ballon light out of the (limited) equipment he had. I am shooting on sup16, 7218 with T2.0 primes package. I usually approach the scene first looking at how I am going to light the long shots then I make my way to the close ups and so on... In this scene I have a couple of long shots and I don't have a lot of ideas and same goes for the experience. I will also have a couple of hazers to do the mist, and if wind ruins the situation I will just have to go without it. Hazers will leave me with about 12k of generator power to do the lights and I wrote what my light package includes in the first post----I did not wrote that I have one kino flo, and 6 or 7 500w chinabulbs. My backlights should be 2 to 2.5 stops over and my key light should be 1 to 1.5 stops under. I am going for 1/2 ctb on the backlights/sidelights and full ctb on the key lights to give a little bluish cast to underexsposed areas. Because I am using soft for key I will not be using any fill light and I don't like the effect that it does when shooting for moonlight. I feel that I could only go wrong and overlight the scene with fill light, especially if I have hazers doing the mist, that will bring my light levels up- but if somebody thinks different let me know. I want to ask Fredrik why do I need to put backlight on the ground now that you realised that I am shooting in a misty field? I really wanted it to look like night scenes from "sleppy hollow" or "band of brothers" episode when they are stuck in the ardenne forest-(I will not have snow like them). I knew they had a studio and they lit those scenes I think with bunch of space lights. I can go on forever talking about this. One more thing is that every other scene in the film is going to be lit like a Norman Rockwell painting-my personal reference. When I came to think about the night scene I did not had any reference because I couldn't find any night exterior paintings from Rockwell- again if anybody has something on the topic please write it. Thanks everybody for reading this, hope somebody replies. Dinko

Night lighting has always been a problem to me, not because I am a student but because usualy I would not have the proper equipment to do the shots the way I want them to look. I wanted to do this scene with ballons, since I dont have the money then I have to do it with the lights I have and those are: 6x 1k ellipsoid beam PAR 2x EL generator 6500honda 2x 4light-(4x650w PAR) 1x 6light-(6x650w PAR) 2x 2k and a half a dozen of 1k and 650w fresnels The question is how to make a light that is similar to ballon light out of the equipment that I have just listed? Can you achieve it by putting a lot of china balls together? Has anybody tried it? If anybody feels like answering on this one I will appreciate all help I can get, or if somebody knows someone who has a 20k ballon a generator and is willing to operate it for under $300 that would be incredible. (i know it's not possibile but at least I tried) Thanks in advance dinko