[Mayalin Fiks]

Ok Dennis. Thank you for your insight re: shark tanks, Hot Tea etc.

[Mayalin Fiks]

Thanks Mark. I accept both praise & critique, when they are due.
Nevertheless, I appreciate the time and effort you took in your response & all of your advice to a laymen learner. I’m heading to Adorama to try and rent the LED work light plus gels, and diffusers in addition to the chinese paper ball lights. I like the idea of a temporary light source coming from the microwave as well, I’m thinking the LED string lights could work well for that?
I’m going to try to borrow some kinos and get blue gels for those as the main source of light.
Thanks again, have a good rest of your week.

[Mayalin Fiks]

Again thank you for not helping at all. I never asked anyone for pre-packaged bundle of anything. I put in work, I am learning. I ask questions. Someone may answer. I may have a follow-up question, it’s called a conversation- that’s what forums are for. Nowhere on this site does is stipulate that I have to be a professional to post. Part of learning is figuring out what questions to ask. Clearly, I am in a bind and trying to find a solution to a problem that occurred last minute.

Stop wasting your time on someone apparently not willing to put in work. Congratulations on your 400 videos, I’m sure you wrote many long, beautiful, haughty essays along the way.

Weakly, longingly, lost in a field of lights and laziness,

M

[Mayalin Fiks]

Thanks for your response Mark.
I still disagree that being sarcastic while belittling an amateur’s effort (because you have an “emmy” or an “oscar”) is appropriate here. If he’s angry at my naïveté, then just don’t answer my thread.

Anyway, Details: I have $150 set aside for lighting, I live in reach of Adorama (https://www.adoramarentals.com/)

I have no lighting instruments so far.
The main shot I’m concerned with is a medium close up of a girl standing by a kitchen island with some of the background visible behind her too (this mainly consists of wooden cupboards and other kitchen details and is about 2 feet behind her). I want it to look like she woke up in the middle of the night and turned the dimmer down low- I won’t be panning like in the video I linked to earlier, it’ll just be one fixed shot. I’m just trying to fake it as best I can! Thanks for taking time out to be helpful Mark.

[Mayalin Fiks]

If you have no help to offer, why waste your time with pretentious comments? I’m clearly, a beginner- why poke fun of someone trying to learn?

Thank you for your close-minded opinion.

I’m sure I’ll receive more apt answers from the rest of the very willing and helpful Creative Cow Community.

Enjoy your night.

[Mayalin Fiks]

Thanks again, I ended up trying to get the actors to freeze but it just looked hilarious instead. Here’s the video that ended up coming out of it, https://vimeo.com/45876005
🙂

[Mayalin Fiks]

Thank you so much Oliver, that was really helpful! Now Just trying to get the lighting right 🙂

[Mayalin Fiks]

Thank you Neil!
Do you really think they sped it up in post though?
Also, could you clarify “chop it up”?

[Mayalin Fiks]

Simon
Thank you, finished downloading MTT , about to download your free app and give it a go.

James- I tried doing it that way but I couldn’t get it to catch only some greens (I want some greens to stay green, and others to change to purple). Still trying though.

* Thank you *

[Mayalin Fiks]

Tried that it works fine on its own. Is there a way to do it without Compressor (don’t have it :/ )
Thanks!