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How about the “old standbys” like STRAND (now Philips Strand-Selecon), or Altman (excellent quality for less cost) and Desisti?

DS

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I’ve often found that money can’t buy happiness …but a shirt from GOOD MORNING AMERICA, or OPRAH, or YES NETWORK can get me MUCH more than I wanted!!! ….. 😉

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Dollars??? Wow… I usually just use swag (shirts and hats)!

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A million years ago, when I first started out, a gruff — yet wise old sage — advised me never to violate the “6 P’s of success” in this business:

Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Production

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Perhaps a simple email or phone call saying “I’d like to put a light outside the windows shooting into the classroom ….. yes or no?”

DS

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In your planning (obsessing) process did you actually do a survey of the site — take measurements, visualize it in your “mind’s eye”, explain what you were planing to the people at the site — perhaps do a rough diagram for them (and yourself), and get permission to put a light outside?

DS

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By the way, you should also equip yourself with several reflectors to bounce that ceiling light where you need it most.

DS

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I hardly think one extension cord to power 2 or 3 Diva 400’s would be a big deal, but so be it.
You need a broader based light source than the Locaster. Use two stands with 2-4 interconnected 1′ x 1′ lite panels ….all battery powered.

DS

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Arri’s Locaster is a great new LED fixture, well thought out, and probably the most accurate of all the LED’s units available. It impressed me when I first used it a year ago. It’s the wrong fixture to serve as the primary light source on your supermarket shoot however. The beam is not wide enough…. and if you diffuse it you won’t have enough intensity.
Stick with Diva’s or simple 4 x 4 Kino’s and use the Locaster as an eyelight/fill.

Good luck
DS

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This is actually only a medium size set-up.
If it’s too big for you to handle, then drop your number of areas down to 9 (3 rows of 3), and triangulate your lighting (3 equilateral keylights to each area). Your total fixture count will only be 27 units.
Use a bigger lens to achieve the proper diameter beam, and be sure to pump up the boxer’s corners with a head on special.
Your truss height will be determined by your arena ….and the height of the ring. Maintain a steep 30 degree angle — or steeper — to the areas, otherwise you’ll fall into the trap of creating a glare in the fighter’s eyes — blinding them unecessarily. (Think of the old gunslinger’s trick ….. keeping the sun in the eyes of their opponent during a shoot-out). This would only anger them, creating an unfair advantage in certain positions; and perhaps then you’d be the one with the black eye.

Good luck
DS