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How to gel a window with panes from inside
I’m doing a shoot on the third floor of an old office building with too much light coming in the windows. I dont’ have access to the windows from outside. The two windows have eight panes each. It would be too time consuming to gel each pane individually. I guess I have to hang one gel over all the panes. I wonder how that would look? Or maybe I should just temporarily install a curtain? Any suggestions? Here is what the window looks like, but it is three stories up.
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Is this the top floor? If so, do you have access to the roof to where you could drop a 12X12 double net over the edge? Weight the bottom edge with pipe & drop ropes tied to the ends to the ground for tying off.
If not, going with the set dressing route of curtains might be the quickest solution.
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Hi Mark, thanks for the comment. I don’t think we have access to roof. We ended up going with curtains. They were obviously a quick solution, and they worked well I think. I’ll send you a link to the result in a few days.
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Please do. I always like to see how a problem gets solved.
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Hi Mark, here is a part of the video, with the curtains:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl8vtv8DeqOjt0XsDYxOAaQ/videos
The curtain on the left is a denser fabric, it was a bed sheet actually, but I think it still wasn’t quite dense enough. What do you think of my lighting?
I had a friend of mine do the voice over, but I’m not sure her voice is right.
Thanks for any feedback, Chris
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Hey Chris,
For this sort of piece, the lighting is entirely appropriate. It’s not like you’re going to want a strong contrast dramatic look for an excercise video. While I might have hemmed the fabric to be a bit shorter, they served the purpose of knocking the window brightness down so they didn’t particularly draw the eye to them. It aslo gave those bland walls a bit of texture. Just gelling or NDing them wouldn’t have bought you much. You’d just have bright, square holes.
The VO didn’t bother me at all. She’s clear, succinct & well paced. I could point you to any number of commercial product vids where frankly I just cringe at the narration.
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