Mark D'agostino
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Maintaining at least a 9′ distance from the screen will solve most of your problem with white hair. I also have had great success placing 4×8 white cards on stands on the sides and above the talent to block as much of the green as possible. They also bounce white light around the edges of the talent which makes for a cleaner composite. I’ve used brown paper and black flags also depending on the lighting effect. Of course having the smallest amount of green background possible to begin with helps.
If the shot is wide enough that you see green floor, but not feet, place card, paper, etc. on the floor around and under the talent to kill green bounce from below. I’ve also placed small cards on grip poles to place under arms to kill green bounce when a person gestures forward or is demonstrating a product.Mark D’Agostino
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Mark, I’m 5’6″. Could we make that height plus a foot and a half:)
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Thanks Dennis. I had heard of Vectorworks a while back and would love to use it but it’s way out of my price range. I’m giving MicroLux a try. The “light” version is free. The “pro”version is $899 but can be had for $99 if I “act fast” and buy soon.
Mark D’Agostino
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Thanks Bill. Based on your enthusiastic response I’ll definitely check it out.
Mark D’Agostino
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Any opinions regarding MicroLux? I downloaded the free “light” version but haven’t had the chance to try it out yet.
Mark D’Agostino
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Since Brian wants to capture the object smashing int the floor would you rapidly raise a “floor” to impact and smash the stationary object in your example?
Mark D’Agostino
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Mark absolutely nailed it. Fashionable or not it works if it’s not forced. Do it because it strengthens the story, not because it looks cool.
Mark D’Agostino
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I’ve done a few hallway dolly shots with the China Ball/Softlight mounted to the dolly. For back lights I’ve rigged several small lights with Lowell ceiling tile clamps along the center length of the hall. In one case I lined the hotter overlaps with the doorways and it made a nice natural movement of back light. Of course, this works if you have drop ceilings and can rig the stingers out of the way or use battery powered lights and the whole shot needs to be tight enough to never see the ceiling in the far background. My last one was a knees up shot over a 20 foot run and I stayed slightly above eye line for the camera height. (Maybe little mirrors taped at an angle on the ceiling with a grip holding a light that hits the mirrors while riding the dolly:)) Your rig is way cooler though.
Mark D’Agostino
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Did you check to see if the bulb seats tightly in the holder. If there is a slight gap with the contacts you could be getting a bit of arcing. Check to see if the contacts on the fixture look burned or have a carbon build up.
Mark D’Agostino
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The weather did indeed turn sour and we decided to shoot the whole thing inside the store. Of course after we had shot a couple scenes and were committed to indoors the rain stopped, clouds cleared and it turned out to be a super sunny day. We did shoot a few exteriors though. Thanks for your input. We will check out “Lock and Load”.
Mark D’Agostino
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