Your advice on lighting...

[Adam j kennedy]

Hi, i was wondering what you would light a 24' wide blue screen with? i have a shoot comming up that i need to use it on, this will be my fisrt time with this big of a blue screen. i have at my disposal, various mole richardsons, 4 1k, 4 650's... 2 4bank kino-flos, an arri kit; 2 250, 2 350's, 2 650's... and a lowel kit with chimera...

i am going to be shooting with the sony Z1u in hdv. how would you light this for video...

thank you,
adam k.

 

[David Mullen ASC]

Well, I would normally get some extra Kinos, like maybe 10 4' 2-bank fixtures with Kino Bluescreen tubes. Three fixtures along the bottom, three along the top somehow (rigged to ceiling, or perhaps a goalpost speelrail rig) and two vertical ones on each side.

The main thing is to be able to light the screen evenly with the same color, preferably a blue-ish source. So you could gel your lights if you have enough stop, but you need enough lights to cover the screen evenly.

 

[Adam j kennedy]

thanks... ill try that if i can get some more kinos