More Lighting in Indie Filmmaking

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Hello, I’m Corey Turner here on behalf of Expert Village.com and today we are talking about low budget movie making. Back to the light kit we used in the last meeting. This one here of course puts out a nice range light and it is adjustable so we can adjust down and kind of zoom in or zoom out. Now the stand here which is just like this one opens up and can extend and I would say this light can probably be about 8 or 8 ½ feet high. It is easy as that. Now as important as lighting is it can also hurt you. If you have too much direct light on your characters they are going to wash out, going to lose definition and you are probably going to be casting some incredible shadows on the back wall. So you have to be able to diffuse that. We have a soft box here, breaks down, folds apart and fits together nicely in this small case. This metal ring here slides right into the brackets. Sounds like fingers on a chalk board but when that lights up, the light is going to diffuse and go to that soft box, you are not going to have harsh shadows or washout on your characters faces. Now this light kit here probably with 3 lights in the soft boxes probably could run you around $400 to $600. You can shop on line and find some good deals. It is something you want to try to work into your budget if you can. Lighting is important. Without lighting, film is going to look dull, colors will look dull and all the fancy software we can use to edit may not be able to overcome some of the situations that you have on the set. Trust me after many hours in the editing process, everything that we can do to make your life easier while we are on set is helpful.

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