What do we think the titles for each of the films will be? What would you like the titles for each to be? Will they follow a formula (As in ‘The Beatles: Harrison’, ‘The Beatles: Lennon’, etc) or all be completely different? Will they be named after Beatle songs or solo career songs? Or just be references to their lives?
Obviously we have no way of knowing, but it’s fun to speculate.
Hey all, I'm shooting a scene for a low budget short I'm doing. It leans very hard into that low budget look for 99% of it, but to really sell it there is 1% that needs to look great, cinematic, and like a movie.
Because basically everything else intentionally exists in the world of what a child would be able to make, mixing crude animation with footage shot on a handycam, I've ended up having a lot of experience editing, sound mixing, writing, etc, but not actually shooting real life scenes that look good.
So I'm just asking for a little help. The details of the scene are that it takes place at night, with a single subject, outside a pastry shop with a lit neon sign. It's a location with a good amount of light sources already there that I can play with, so I have some leeway to invent a little lighting and lean into what's already there, but the test shoots I've been doing have largely taken place when the shop is closed (I do not have permission to film there, but I'm a semi-frequent customer and also live in the south and everyone here is extremely nice, so I can't imagine I'll have any problems there) but it means the lights being on are the only variable unaccounted for. That leaves the only thing I'm really questioning. I have 3 identical SmallRig RC 60Cs with built in batteries, they've served me quite well for all my other needs, and I've used them to mess around with the 3 point lighting setup I'm wanting, but while they're versatile, bright, battery powered (so I don't need to worry about super heavy equipment to a location I don't have explicit permission to shoot at) they are admittedly small and, with my limited knowledge of real world cinematography, I don't have too great a sense of what I should and shouldn't be using.
So my question is really just about the quality of these lights, and if there's something else clearly better that I should be going with? I know the look I want, the composition I want, and I'm good on the rest of my gear, but if I should be renting better equipment I'd like to know because it's a very important scene in the narrative.
Any help anyone at all could give me would be so appreciated :)