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Night X with all LED. Boy am I old. I remember when the condor pilot had a hammock and a redhead for warmth.

Thanks for your sharing ! Luke

Great breakdown! Would have loved to see what it looked like with just the moonbox, as it seems mostly overpowered by the faked streetlight. Seems a little bit like you gave the DP great options, which they then didn't make the greatest use of... but that's commercials for you. The indie film version of that scene would have been lit a lot less I feel.

Thank you Happy Spring 2022

Love this. Great video 😃

Love this breakdown! Thank you for doing these!

Really nicely done videos with tons of great info.

Thanks for the breakdown Luke. Always appreciate the insight you bring.

Your BTS videos help this (mostly) natural light, run-and-gun filmmaker get a sense of the mechanics and equipment involved with a more fully budgeted shoot. Thank you. At the same time, I wasn’t convinced by the color temp chosen (not your call I realize). The “moon” light feels too bright, too white, and too nondirectional (a full or near-full moon casts more shadow) to sell the sense of moonlight. It feels more like low-intensity stadium lighting, as if the kids are playing soccer, not in a front yard, but at the local high school.

Nice use of the Prolycht Orion 300 FS lights!

Wow Luke! So this was all 100% LED? I just love that all you had to run up to the Moonbox was 2 stingers for the Nanlux dynos. Looked amazing!

Fantastic Thank you !

Another great video! Always the best when working with good friends on set. Would love to see your opinion on the lightpanel apollo bridge compared to something like the AKS transmitter. Had a good amount of work with the AKS, but not til recently have I started hearing about the apollo bridge.

Love seeing what goes into creating the "smoke and mirrors" before "we actors" arrive on set. I'm not sure who works harder in the "prep" stages - actors or crew? All I know is that it's a "team effort" - It's always great to see you on set Luke!!!!

interesting to see your gear shift, didn't hear a single sky panel listed. there wasn't quite the color temp clash of moonlight and streelamps I'd expect.

So so great that you are doing this! Someone was just on Facebook saying that they were a 'new' gaffer and stating that they knew absolutely nothing about electricity and where could they find videos that would explain things. Of course I sent them your way. That was 25 minutes after their post where hundreds of people slammed them for being a gaffer with no experience with electricity. It was taken down as I was suggesting your videos so I sent a DM... Keep up the great work! I think I will just watch a few to see my old friends if nothing else!

Hi Luke, I want you to know that your channel and Andrew Lock's channel are my favorites. I love that you take the time to answer questions on your channel. I try to only ask questions that I can't find the answers to somewhere else. Let's say I am building a 8x8x4' box to create top light for a God Father look. I want to light it with 3 Aputure Nova p600c's. I can build the box with 1-1/2" SpeedRail and Modern Studio Equipment fittings. For the diffusion, (Magic Cloth), and Eggcrate on the bottom of the box, I can buy them from TRP, (The Rag Place). What I can't figure out is how to cover the sides of the box with material. I would like to stock both a Magic Cloth and a Duventyne material for the sides so I can use either one depending on the use case. What should I buy and where can I get it?? Thanks for your time. Mathew

Cool!

Thanks for this breakdown! This may be a silly question but what if there were exterior scenes that needed audio? How would you work around the genny/what would be the discussion with the sound department? Also, I'm guessing you may opt for an alternate set-up, and would there be a scenario where you could do it without the genny?

Awesome work! But... No wet down??

Thank for sharing the breakdown. Honestly, this does looks more like a street light effect rather then moonlight in my opinion. However the crew did a big job and production spent...

Nice! Where can I see the finished piece?

those generators were really loud, how did yall manage to conceal that when filming? or is all the sound added in post

I am so used to working with 110 volts. Are the LED s auto voltage select are do you need to select voltage manually?

What’s them blue things on the top pipe

I love these breakdown with set footage! Having said that, I feel like the scene feels a little too lit. Not really moonlight-ish and for a ambient street lamp situation it's also too soft I think.

Is it just me or the close up on the little kid is over exposed?

Anyone else try wiping the spot on the wall behind Luke’s head off their screen or am I the only idiot?

P.S.: The moon is a very small, harsh source of light. That was a giant softbox giving you light which looked nothing like moonlight. Again, I apologize if I'm coming across badly. But looking like a prick IS kinda my thing. You go with what you've given, right?

Great video. It’s never work when your with hood people.

Not trying to be a prick, but I found the commerical over lit and very unnatural looking. Would have done it with a great high ISO camera and much less light (and crew... and equipment). You obviously had a nice budget. Seems like the look falls into the "because we can" category rather than "because we should".