im filming in the woods later today and i have no electricity to use (my only other option would be o plug a ton of extension cords into the nearest house and i dont know who they are...) so there fore i cant plug in my lighting. it will be dark out and the lighting is IMPERATIVE so would holding up a large peice of white cardboard or posterboard or something and then aiming as many flashlights as i can find at it be an option? does anyone think this would actually work...at all...?

Here is the best advice anyone ever gave me about shooting in the woods - use your car headlights.

Just be careful to have another car at hand to jump yours when the battery runs out.

*deep in the woods*

althought i see where ur comin from haha

start a forest fire, use lots of gas

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Originally posted by Hill Dawson Kane:
start a forest fire, use lots of gas

Uhhh... No.

Get some of those very powerful battery powered lantern style flashlights.

Or talk to a lighting place, they might have battery powered stuff. Or, get a generator.

Or film it, au natural.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

Problem with a generator is the GRaaserajeirja;fdajsd;lfkajsd;lf noise it makes. A car is less so...Hmm. you'll have to get some really long extension cords.

You can buy an adapter that fits into your car's cigarette lighter, but it will probably only allow you to have no more than 500W worth of lights.

Why not shoot at dusk? You can probably get in 20 minutes of shooting a day that will pass of as nighttime, but will not require lighting.

gra;dhjf;aauisguer noise. thats why they have voice overs.

Cmon people! Think old school! Shoot during the day with direct sunlight, then edit brightness, contrast and white balance levels to make it look nighttime and turn the sun into moonlight!

exactly! Thats what Im doing on my next shoot.

For a shoot I did a few months back, we ran about 70 yards of extention cord from the the nearest electrical supply to a cabin deep in the woods in order to give power to our large fresnel lights. It was a pain to coil them all back up though.

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It was a pain to coil them all back up though.

Thats what we have freshman for haha...I was there once myself

not to mention in was about -10 degrees (fehrenheit) outside. In case any one hasnt it experienced it, it is extremely difficult to wind up long lengths of extension cord when your fingers are unable to feel anything.

Hurts like hell to when you hit the very tips of your fingers on something hard..like the extension cord pulg *shudders*..or a hammer (had it happen to me once >.<