Lighting Kit
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- vaxorcist0
Find a retiring Gaffer and offer to buy his truckload of stuff....
and/or find a rental house.... rent, rent, rent....the oddball stuff you really need isn't usually included in any commercially available kits, you pick it up as you work, things like black aluminum foil, certain scrims, clamps,grids,oddly bent gobos,etc...
I like the Arri and Tota light stuff for hot lights, matthews grip stuff is always good, I don't like JTL or Smith Victor, I'd rather use Home Depot Construction Halogens than those things...
Softboxes for video are odd, a gaffer I know says they're the lazy way to light a video.... if you've learned photo lighting, video lighting has to deal with motion, tracking shots,etc...
I'd seriously hire a gaffer for a shoot or two and watch really, really carefully if you don't have to worry about the $
- Don't forget the Snot Tape either...vaxorcist
- good advicebetelgeuse