How did they light this???

[Todd Terry]

[Daniel Schultz] “Any possiblity they did this on green screen and put the smart board graphics in post?”

Nah, that was all done practically with a real smart board.

The lighting is pretty easy… there’s just not direct “usual” key light on the talent, which would hit the board. The kids are lit from instruments on the extreme left and right of them (probably almost at a 90° angle), which gives them nice lighting on both left and right sides but without spilling onto the smart board. Look at the shadows and shading on their faces very carefully, that will tell you where the instruments are. They are fairly hard instruments, not soft (fresnels maybe), with barndoors and/or various other cutters that keep it from spilling onto the board. There is good backlighting as well.

In a case like this, set up and expose for the board first (and yes, the brighter the projector, the better), then light the talent. Depending on the brightness of the board, the instruments on the talent might not even have to be that powerful.

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com

[Daniel Schultz]

Thanks, Todd.
BTW, here’s a screen from the school shoot the other day with the HMIs.

1624_screen.jpg.zip

The interviews were easy. The classroom was hard. I guess no surprise there.
Here’s an example of one of the interviews. Just pointed a diffused joker at her with a bounce card on the other side of her for fill. Lots of ambient sun light in the room.

Dan S.

[Steve Kownacki]

Hi Daniel
another video shows the unit and the projector, pretty cool mount with extreme keystone correction.

Steve