diagram: nerdio – creating a void

The last shot of the day was definitely my favorite scene to light! In order to create a ‘black void’ room, we had to film in a room with enough space to avoid spill from the lighting hitting the walls. While this shot could’ve been done in a smaller room, it would’ve been significantly harder to set up and control all the lighting.

Second, all of the available light sources had to be blacked out. As you can see here, this room was flooded with light. Several floppies outside the room and some duvetyne under the skylights helped bring it all under control.

To start lighting this one, an Intellytech Mega Litecloth was boomed in over our talent, and slightly in front of him. This was controlled with a grid to reduce the spill on the back wall. I placed the light slightly in front of the subject to eliminate the raccoon eye effect that can happen when overhead sources are too directly overhead.

Two Aputure Infinibar PB12’s were placed behind the talent on both sides of him to provide the blue rim lighting. A black piece of gaffers tape was placed along the back side of each tube to act as a flag and block the light from casting onto the back wall.

A Kelvin EPOS 300 was popped behind our talent on the floor using a pigeon plate to give him some real poppy background separation, and the spill onto his legs was controlled with a flag.

Lastly, an Aputure MC pro taped to a monitor simulated the light coming from said computer monitor!

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Once more, a huge thank you to AJ for letting me film this episode on his set. If you haven’t watched it yet, go tune in on my channel! There’s some scenes I didn’t cover here on the blog!

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client: nerdio
agency: small hill films
dir: aj campli
dp: bailey miclette
1st: dustin wheeler
2nd: riley clinton
gaffer: tyler trepod
kg: teej morgan
pa: deanna schaekel