Good day,
For a low budget short I will have many day exterior scenes (in moving and parked car and on the street)
where I initially thought using only scrims, reflectors and negative fill, because I was afraid adding light
would slow us down too much.
But we are in winter and being in the mountains the weather (and light) can change very dramaticaly in
very little time so I thought that if I took only one single but very powerful artificial source it could not slow
us down so much and would up the results noteably.
I figure a 6 or 8K would fit every shot (as I can always bring down it's power, but I obviously cannot raise
the light of a smaller source) and we would not have to rent more fixtures. (less fixtures, fewer people to
physically manage the light, fewer generators, smaller truck, faster shooting)
Let's suppose physical space is not a matter: if I need the light it "lower" I could simply move the source
further away before it hits the 8x8 diffusion.
But: Is there something I miss?
Is this (less fixtures ... faster shooting) a "valid formula" without overly compromising the result?
(We will shoot on SRIII, Super16, Vision3 200T)
Thank you in advance for any advice or shared experiences!