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Alright I've been doing lots of reading and really feel this forum is the best place to get the answers I need. I'm shooting a short film that mainly takes place in a moving car at night. Very hard thing to do for a Film Student on a 1200$ budget, I've come to find out. We did some tests and realized that we are going to need a well lit street. We found one and did some tests then realized not enough light was getting on the actor, so we switched the vehicle to a convertible. This made the shots a lot more interesting and created a lot more light for our talent. Here are some location/storyboard shots Here is a Photoshoped photo of the rig we will be attempting to use. This to us seems the most plausible, without the trailer we would have a car driving around with something obstructing the view of the actor. I'm sure this idea for shooting is still illegal but we think it might be less illegal, than just a car and camera mount, if that makes sense. Basically we are trying to pull this part of the film off in 1 night from 10pm to 6am on a Sunday night, without the need to shut an entire street down. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifleeter/8755013241/sizes/l/in/photostream/ For the lighting we were thinking of adding a 1.2K HMI to the back of the truck and making it really soft to light up everyone in the car a bit more. What ways can we go about lighting the actors better without using dashboard lights or anything small. We don't want it to look like there are lights on in the car. We are using a Sony FS100 with Rokinon Cine lenses, I'm sure we would be able to get away with shooting it natural and bump the ISO up. But we really want to make the light look as best as we possibly can with what we have. Lighting equipment we have----- (2) 1k Fresnel and (1) 1.2K HMI and a lowell light kit. Is there anyway we could make this shooting rig safer as well as less likely to piss the cops off. The street we are filming on is 30mph so it's not a highway or anything. Thanks for any help or advice you can give me. -Ryan