[Joe Nolan]

Ok here is the video for all of you who responded that might be curious.

https://www.vimeo.com/18410600

The lighting in question doesn’t start until 20 seconds in. Basically, I used these three lights hanging from the ceiling over a pool table for pretty much all the close up bar shots. I moved the pool table out, set the poker table underneath the lights, turned off all the lights in the room except the ones hanging over the table. I was surprised at how good a job they did low-lighting features of the face while keeping everything in the background dark. That was the main thing I was going for, definitely not as complex as the things you guys have mentioned (though it woulda been great to have a DP on board who has this know-how). Everything else I used the lightkit as somewhat of a spotlight but found that I barely had to use those. All the lighting in the hotel room is terrible, I know. But beyond that, I’m pretty satisfied with how it came considering I have little to know experience with lighting my own projects.

Let me know what yas think.

Thanks,
Joe

[Joe Nolan]

Thanks for all the insightful posts.

Everything you guys posted is way beyond my skill level. Throughout my young career of filming, lighting has never been one of my skills so I was kinda trying to do this the most basic way possible.

I am pretty much done with the video and will post it to see what you guys think but I can guarantee it’s nowhere near the level of professional lighting you all have been discussing.

[Joe Nolan]

Wow, that is an incredibly complex setup. I love the shots of the woman with the shadows on falling across her face, no wonder it came out so good with all the effort put into that shot.

Fortunately, I was able to achieve close to what I wanted with the low key lighting. The bar we were shooting at let use these lights hanging over a pool table. I moved the pool table and put the poker table under there and that basically solved all of the close up shots. Everything I else I used a cheap 500w smith-victor light. I’ll touch up the color in the editing process to try and boost that vintage look.

I will post up some of the footage when I get thru some of the editing.

Thanks for all your help.

[Joe Nolan]

Ok, I’m gunna try and use this light hanging from the ceiling at the bar I’m shooting at. I also figured color correction would play into how I want it to look so I’m probably going to rely on that heavy.

Thanks

[Joe Nolan]

A good example is from 2:08 to 2:12 it gets extremely jittery and there’s no effects on that clip. Maybe I need to view it on a different computer.

[Joe Nolan]

I actually used both of those before and neither worked.

I ended up erasing my entire hard drive, reinstalling mos x, and then finally reinstalling final cut pro. THANK GOD this worked! Hopefully don’t run into this problem again.

Thanks for the help