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Hello all,

I need to create a shaft of "moon light" through a window

of a condo or apartment at night to provide a nice key or
fill on the actors faces. I am going to use a fogger to help
with the visible shaft, but I don’t know what type of light to
use since HMI's are slightly out of the budget.

I am thinking like a 1.2 or 2k source, but not real sure.

Can we use multiple lights, something that will look as
 realistic to moon light I guess would be favorable.
Camera being used is HVX with redrock encore, p2.

all info and suggestions would much appreciated, thanks

a lot.

Chris Apr 12 2009, 04:06 PM

Pritzlaff Post #2

if you really want a visable shaft of light I would suggest a leko

of some sort - you can usually get them in 750w and you can
control the spread of the beam to suit the look you are going
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Posts: 162 However if you are trying to key the actor with it I would
Joined: 25- suggest a softer source as lekos tend to be very hard and
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might not look good as a key light, esp on an HVX.
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Satsuki Apr 12 2009, 04:06 PM

Murashig..
Post #3
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Usually the "shaft of light" effect is a background lighting effect,
rather than a key (though of course you could do that). The only
way it would work as a fill is if you bounced the light back up to
Group: the actor.
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Posts: 807 You can use any focused light source for this, so a ellipsoidal
Joined: 2- spot or a Dedolight would work. Also look into 1000w par 64
April 05
fixtures with VNSP (Very Narrow Spot) globes, which put out a
From: San
Francisco, huge amount of focused tungsten light. They get very hot
CA though, watch out. They won't be as powerful as a larger HMI,
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but you can cluster multiple units together to get a multi-shaft
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1st effect. If you're budget opens up, then there's a Dedo 400w
Assistant HMI that you could look into. And you can also get 400/800w
Camera
Joker HMIs inside a 'soidal housing to take advantage of the
optics.

Apr 12 2009, 04:35 PM

Kyle Stueve
Post #4
QUOTE (Satsuki Murashige @ Apr 12 2009, 05:06 PM)

Usually the "shaft of light" effect is a background

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lighting effect, rather than a key (though of course

Group: Basic Members you could do that). The only way it would work as a fill
Posts: 3 is if you bounced the light back up to the actor.
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 Director of You can use any focused light source for this, so a
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ellipsoidal spot or a Dedolight would work. Also look
into 1000w par 64 fixtures with VNSP (Very Narrow
Spot) globes, which put out a huge amount of
focused tungsten light. They get very hot though,
watch out. They won't be as powerful as a larger HMI,
but you can cluster multiple units together to get a
multi-shaft effect. If you're budget opens up, then
there's a Dedo 400w HMI that you could look into.
And you can also get 400/800w Joker HMIs inside a
'soidal housing to take advantage of the optics.

Yeah normally I would not use that light as key, but

this scene is a party scene where the house lights are
off and I need some primary source for illumination,
they will be sitting on a couch or something, after
partying, that type of feel. Needs to have a dramatic
edge with nice harsh shadows. I just need something
on the side of there faces like "moon light" and we
can fill in with flex of foam core