『user voice』- No.2 |You just create, leave the lighting to me

『Lishuai user voice-No.2』

Things about MV lighting

Every creator who shoots an MV is always obsessed with scenes with drastic changes in different lights and light and shadow effects that express strong emotions.

MV has a strong emotional color, and a certain personal experience color. So how to vividly perform the scenes with drastic changes in different colors and lights? Lighting will be a particularly important part of it.

Today, let's follow the professional lighting director Mr.Feng, and take a look at the lighting of an MV shooting.

Venue: Studio with a length of 50m and a width of 25m

Lighting list:

Lishuai spotlight 1000X PRO 6 sets

Lishuai full color light tube T120 1 set

Soft box + egg grid 1 set

spotlight mount 1 piece

First, use a 1000X PRO with a 65-degree reflective bowl directly behind the character to improve the density of the environment and modify the outline of the character.

Then place a 1000Xpro with a 65-degree reflective bowl at the top of the right behind, left behind and right behind the character to modify the character's hair, as well as the outline layers of the left and right sides of the character.

Just above the character, there is also a 1000X PRO with a softbox and egg grid, in order to modify the layers of the character's hair.

At the same time, we placed an LED light tube and a 1000X PRO with a spotlight mount, to create some special effects.

Shooting and lighting experience

Q: What is the biggest trouble with lighting?

The biggest trouble is that there are not enough people!

No matter how many lighting assistants there are, it is really a challenge to test the team's ability to put every light in the ideal position and make the light come out "just right". For this shooting, if we follow the conventional light configuration, the lighting equipments and personnel required are far beyond what we have planned.

Fortunately, Lishuai 1000X PRO innovatively adopts a variety of light control methods: wired DMX, built-in wireless DMX, mobile APP, on board control, etc.

Compared with the complicated wiring and limited on board control of traditional lightings, using Lishuai's 1000X PRO only needs to preset the lighting position in advance, and the staff can easily change lighting effects in the creation through the DMX console. (Wireless DMX is really the light of creation)

Q: What is the deepest feeling of using 1000Xpro?

Perfect and delicate! The convenience and sense of use of continuous LED lights are generally recognized advantages in the industry. However, what surprised me is that Lishuai 1000X PRO can achieve such accurate low-end control on the basis of ensuring 1000W high brightness.

The precise control of low-end brightness below 10% is really the ultimate. Starting from 0, you can feel the linear and even transition of the light, allowing the delicate and uniform light to transform freely in the space, creating a flexible sense of space, and giving the film more emotional appeal.

Q: What surprises does the LED spotlight have?

With traditional lightins, it is necessary to carry a large number of accessories such as reflectors, black flags, etc. when going out, which brings a lot of burden and inconvenience to shooting out.

As a new type of LED light source, in this MV shooting, we can achieve a lot of lighting effects that cannot be achieved by other lights only by using the reflector and soft box with Bowens adapter, which greatly improves the lighting efficiency of the shooting and reduces the cost.