Re: Lighting a hallway for a night shoot. With no natural light source (IE no windows for moonlight)

One solution: incorporate single 4' or 8' kino flow tubes into the hallway as vertical strips in the shot. If you have the luxury of set design, have them construct small vertical shields to make the flos look like lighting fixtures. Space them out left - right - left etc. so that the actors are lit unevenly as they progress down the hall. Or, put them lined up evenly left and right. Depends on what look you want.

Another: incorporate single 8' kino flos as part of the edging, where the walls meet the floor.

Another: if the ceiling can be lifted up, slide those same tubes alternatively left and right; camera has to be high enough to never see the ceiling. Or, mount small fresnel units; let the actors get a bit hot at the closest points; spread them out so that the actors almost disappear into darkness inbetween for just a step or so.

Another, somewhat already suggested: have the actor(s) carry a light source. Even flashlights swinging around.

Another: build a false floor with strips of plexiglass and run kinos underneath. The plex could be at the edges, or down the center.

Another: attach battery-operated sconces to the wall.



Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
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