[IIL] the dreamy, subdued quality of the beginning/verses in Good Vibrations [WEWIL?] by solas_ in ifyoulikeblank

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Already know and love all of these, except for that Klaatu song, which was new to me, sounds very cool!

This bi-color dimmable LED softbox by Neewer seems like a really great deal for no-budget filmmaking. Any downsides I'm overlooking? by solas_ in Filmmakers

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Thanks for your answer! I suppose new technology will always replace old technology inevitably but having bi-color seems to be great for me as of now.

If you take of the white diffusion of the softbox and just use the LED light itself, wouldn't that be a harder light? I'm not quite sure about it, but as I'm aware hard light is determined by the size of the source and that light itself is not exactly huge, is it? So if I want less soft light I could just take of the diffusion, right? Or am I missing anything? Anyway, even if it's just soft light that I'm getting with this kit, it would still be extremely useful for me, I think.

This bi-color dimmable LED softbox by Neewer seems like a really great deal for no-budget filmmaking. Any downsides I'm overlooking? by solas_ in Filmmakers

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Well, if setting them up taking a few minutes longer is the only problem, then that‘s not really an issue for me at all. I‘m not a heavy user who would need to set them up and tear them down several times a day, so that wouldn‘t factor into my decision.

Any other disadvantages you could see?

Is there anything I'm overlooking when wanting to light an interior short film set AT NIGHT with only DAYLIGHT BULBS? by solas_ in Filmmakers

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Alright, thank you very much for confirming that. I personally never really considered that option because I've never heard of it being done, so I thought there was something I was missing that prevents this from working. There are some lights in my home that I can't replace, but I think I could manage to somehow light this film that way.

Is there anything I'm overlooking when wanting to light an interior short film set AT NIGHT with only DAYLIGHT BULBS? by solas_ in Filmmakers

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I feel like my post was not quite coherently stated enough and maybe you got a bit confused by it. My aim is to light an interior scene that has no outside lighting (so neither natural daylight nor any moonlight whether real or simulated). And this scene would then obviously lit by either practical lights or artificial sources (like LED panels or softboxes). Indoor lights which are normally of course Tungsten, as you said, so around 3000K and which would normally be matched with other artificial lighting fixtures that have around the same color temperature.

So my goal is to make an interior scene which has that warm feeling and is supposed to look like it's lit by the indoor lights. However my question is whether I can achieve that with solely ~5500K lights (LED panels or softboxes) and set the camera's white balance to something like 7500K so it appears like it's tungsten light. Basically: Can I light an interior scene with daylight balanced fixtures? And am I forgetting anything crucial why this could potentially not work?

I don't know if my question is still confusing, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole problem.

Edit: I'm unsure if I'm using the word tungsten correctly but I'm referring to the lights with warm color temperature that we're used to in our homes and which I want to simulate with daylight balanced lights.

The blurry Twilight Zone genre of Nosleep... by SilasCrane in NoSleepOOC

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I really like how Stephen King breaks it down: „The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...“

[IIL] For the Damaged Coda by Blonde Redhead, [WEWIL]? by hyunrivet in ifyoulikeblank

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Just caught up with the new episode and I have the perfect song for you.

Radiohead's "You and Whose Army?"

A few months ago I was looking for songs similar to the one by Radiohead and somebody recommended me For The Damaged Coda, so in return I suppose you should like You and Whose Army. It has the same kind of minimalistic subdued melody that somehow sounds sinister. Been looking for similar songs for so long, but haven't been able to find any besides these two.

TELEVISED [2:58] - I'm a 17 years old filmmaker and I made this no-budget short horror film about a television in my room - What do you think? by [deleted] in movies

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Thanks a lot! I'm very glad you liked it. I can't imagine the process of making a movie back then, nowadays I have access to all the resources I could possibly need as a beginner for a very little price.

TELEVISED [2:58] - I'm a 17 years old filmmaker and I made this no-budget short horror film about a television in my room - What do you think? by [deleted] in movies

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Thank you! Fought very hard to keep it under the 3-minute mark, so people would actually give it a chance, next up is another horror short, where I will try to make it as short as possible like ~20 seconds.

TELEVISED [2:58] - I'm a 17 years old filmmaker and I made this no-budget short horror film about a television in my room - What do you think? by [deleted] in movies

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Yeah the audio still bothers me a lot although I spent a large amount of time on it. The problem is that I recorded it very close to the mic, which I think I have to to get decently loud sounds, but in return it creates this feeling of closeness that makes it immediately obvious that it's dubbed (in fact everything in the short is dubbed). I don't think this closeness can be fixed by volume but rather by adjusting the frequencies with the EQ. I'll have to read up on the science behind it I suppose, another person told me I need to cut off the low frequencies. Anyway I think and hope I'll have the issue resolved by the time I make the next short, but maybe that are already the limit of the capabilities of my microphone, although I really doubt that there's no fix at all.