Darrell Ham

Sorry, I saw that he's on a student budget and know that this is a thing Art Dept constantly does. If you want a more sound professional advice, then ShareGrid/KitSplit is your friend. Aputure 300Ds can be rented for about $50-100 a day/weekend. As for batteries, I highly recommend trying to rent an extra set of v-mount batteries to eliminate the need for a genie/suitcase. As mentioned before, use either a bounce or diffusion for an atmosphere light. And again, haze/smoke is your friend in this type of situation. Also forgot to mention in my first post, have some sort of chinaball/light dome set up to help key the talents faces.

Any way of getting vehicles onto location? If you aren't able to rent the Aputure lights, you can always try using car headlights or look into using LED work lights from home depot(there's always the whole buy&return trick to get your money back). Either way, I'd hit the light thru some sort of diffuser and add a bit of smoke/haze to spread it as much as possible.