I am in the process of planning a student short film. I need advice on lighting in a couple of the scenes. Although it is a student short film we have a couple of thousand pound budget.
The first scene I need help with is an interior scene. In the scene a police officer interrogates a suspect. In this scene we want to try shoot it using only candle light. (The candles would be in the frame.) What lenses and camera would we need to do this without having any noise in the image?
If it is impossible to use only candle light, what lights would you recommend to give the impression that only candle light was lighting the room? And how would we replicate the flickering of the candles? (I know candle light is 1900 kelvin.)
If neither of these two options are possible, we want to try and replicate daylight by shining artificial light through the window. What lights are between 5200 - 6000 kelvin?
One of our scenes is an exterior - in a wood. We want to try and replicated the sun. What lights would be the best to do this? Again I assume we would need lights between 5200-6000 kelvin. What type of generator would we need to pull this off? We want to defuse the light, how would we do that? We wont have access to a crane unfortunately, is there any other equipment that could be used to place a light high up?
I realise this is all pretty ambitious but you've got to dream big!
If you need any more info let me know and I will see if I can provide it.
