[SML] lighting for video (from a live theatre background)

[Riter, Andrew]

Thanks Lou.  A concern I have (looking way down the road) is if we adapt the house (add truss, add stand lights in the balconies) which help for the video recording without audience, but then when we are allowed audiences again, and the client wants to record / webcast, then I'm hooped all over again.

Points taken.  We'll have to see HOW MUCH frost or diffusion change things on the architecture.

Andrew M. Riter
Chan Centre

604-808-2033 (working from home)

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Subject: Re: [SML] lighting for video (from a live theatre background)

Hi Andrew,

Make your lighting softer and more _even_.  Not exactly frost, but "diffusion"
in every instrument.  Also color correction (CTB) in every incandescent unit.
Soften the focus, no hard edges.  If there's no audience, nobody cares if there
is spill into the house, right ?   Overlap and over-light.  You can always dim
it a little if the video folks complain it's too bright.  Fresnels are good, also par-cans are good.  Bounce can be useful if you have some kind of reflective panels or flats.  The people in the shot should be lit from EVERY direction, not just from the front.



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