Becoming a portion of the UNDFIND 1 team, my work was to produce the video and stills that would be employed for the Kickstarter project.
We had a very tight spending budget, and I had recently accomplished a behind the scenes video on generating and lighting a distinctive scene with just Home Depot lights. So, I believed why not do the identical factor for the One particular project.
So, in this tutorial, I am going to display you guys precisely how we setup the lighting for this scene to pull off the final shots shown under. The complete price range for the shoot was $ one,500, and lighting (like wiring) only expense a total of $ 265.
Final Outcome Samples
Samples from the final video – Shot 1080p 30fps on 5D Mark II w/ 100mm @ F/4
Samples from the final set of stills – Shot sRAW on 5D Mark II w/ 50mm @ F/4
The Setup
Step 1 – Flooring and Wall Tiles ($ 1065 Total expense)
The initial step was setting up the flooring and the wall tiles. Interestingly enough, this was really wherever the vast majority of our price range was spent. But, we figured that we would be making use of this set in future video clips, so it wouldn’t be a one particular time expense.
The whole area is 10×10 feet. So we purchased 10 square feet of wood flooring tiles from Home Depot (which price about $ 200) along with 20 square feet of Seesaw Wall Flat tiles to cover the two walls. For some cause, these cardboard molded wall flats price $ 86 per box and it took 10 boxes to cover the two walls. So, yeah, that is exactly where the majority of our budget went as it expense $ 860. To the attach them to the wall, we basically utilised 4 pieces of double sided tape per tile.
Step two – J.C. Our Lighting Dummy
When I am undertaking scene setups, I location a lighting dummy exactly where my topic is going to be in order to form my light. It isn’t affordable to have a man or woman stand in for 60 minutes as I sit there and mold and shape our light. So, I pop in J.C., our lighting dummy, to give me a nice illustration of how the lighting is modifying as I add and modify each and every light.
Step three – Wiring the Set ($ 50 in wires and strips at Property Depot)
Concealing cables on a set is usually a challenge, specially when you are shooting broad. Luckily, in this video we didn’t shoot wide adequate to see the flooring. But, for future video clips I knew that we would. But, with the wood tile floors we had a simple resolution, we basically ran the cables behind the tiles along the edge of the wall then pushed the wood flooring against the cables to pinch and conceal it against the wall.
Step four – Husky Daylight Work Lights ($ 50 every single at Home Depot)
We utilized two Husky Florescent operate lights as uplights to bring out the texture of the wall tiles. We employed florescent daylight temperature lights since we desired the background to be a nice shade of blue, although we white balanced to tungsten that would be used on the topic.
The image over shows the placement of the uplights on the floor. Every single is evenly spaced from the corner of the set.
Step five – Workforce Tungsten Operate Light Stand ($ 35 at Residence Depot)
The subsequent light in our setup is a twin head Workforce Function Light light which we use as a rim light on our topic off camera left.
Whilst utilizing function lights is affordable, there are downsides. Some of which consist of the heat, the lack of energy manage, as properly as directional handle. Whilst we cannot modify the first two, we can modify the course of the lighting. To prevent the tungsten light from hitting the uplit walls, I additional on a small cardboard GOBO (Go In Among Object). Don’t worry, the light doesn’t get hot adequate to burn the cardboard, though just to be risk-free, I wouldn’t leave the set turned on whilst I went to do my grocery shopping.
Step 6 – Workforce Tungsten Perform Light ($ 15 at Residence Depot)
To define the proper side of the topic, I extra an added tungsten Workforce light to camera correct.
Step 7 – Tungsten Modeling Light (Can use the $ 35 light employed over)
Given that we have modeling lights sitting around the studio, I didn’t need to have to invest far more funds on the work lights for our set. So, while we are utilizing a modeling light as the major light, this would look and perform specifically the identical with the dual light stand used over. The benefit to using a modeling light is that I have a nice little barn door to simply manage the direction of the light.
This light is placed straight to camera proper and is employed as the principal light on our topic.
Step eight – Softening the Primary Light ($ 30 Scrim)
To soften our main light, we are using a regular scrim out of a easy silver reflector kit that can be purchased for $ 20 – $ 30 fairly considerably anyplace. The purpose of softening this light is to avoid hot spots and shine on the subjects encounter. This is especially useful as our set is obtaining very hot (actually) because of the volume of tungsten lights in near proximity. So, trying to keep that primary light soft is going to support conceal any oil/shine on our subjects encounter.
The scrim is placed on a stand straight in front of the main modeling light as shown over.
Finished Set
With the ambient room lights off, you can see the final look of our set over. At this point, we are prepared to bring in our actual topic, and make a few fine tweaks with the light positioning in order to adjust the exposure and any stray bits of light.
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