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What type of lights would I need to illuminate a night video set?
What to shoot some night scenes, what tye of lights do I need?
This depends on the situation you're shooting in and the atmosphere you are trying to create. I'm assuming that you are planning on shooting outdoors. The most important factor is creating lighting that is sympathetic to the existing light in the scene, ie if your scene features only moon and starlight you are going to need a very pure white or slightly blue tinted diffuse light source directed from above, but if your scene features street lighting you are going to need your lights to match the colour of the existing light sources.
Most standard retail lamps throw a slightly yellow coloured light so do some investigation into colour temperatures of things such as moonlight and sodium street lamps, it is possible to get bulbs that produce light at a specific colour temperature, but if your budget won't stretch to this use standard halogen lamps with coloured plastic gels taped over the top.
If you are trying to recreate natural light then you need to diffuse your light sources so that you don't end up with lots of sharp conflicting shadows that make the scene look obviously lit. The easiest way to do this is to direct your lights away from the scene and use reflectors to direct the light back at your subject. (Big sheets of card covered in silver foil will do this job very well).
Don't be afraid to over light the scene, as long as you don't get too much glare you can always reduce the brightness during the editing process, if you shoot the scene to dark and then try increasing the brightness afterwards you risk ending up with grainy poor quality footage. However if you are going to reduce the brightness in post production it will probably be necessary to light the background too, otherwise you might end up with a great looking subject against an almost black background.
Just remember the most important thing is getting good quality crisp footage that recreates the original lighting circumstances, even the cheapest edit software available these days offers you a lot of options in terms of adjusting the brightness, contrast and and colour of your shots once they've been filmed, but this is no good if you haven't thought carefully about the position of your lights and end up with lots of unnatural glare and shadows.
Hope this helps and good luck with the shoot.
