seven cinematography

[Bob Gundu]

Actually Godox has a fantastic and cheap focusing light.

http://www.godox.com/EN/Products_Continuous_Focusing_LED_Light_S30.html

 

[Joe Cage]

The thing you're looking for here is really control, more than power. There are a number of different ways to arrive at essentially this look, so the difference is in the nuance you can get with different tools. Is the beam hard enough to effectively cut on the Aputure mini light? (I see that it comes with barn doors, but these often are terribly effective on COB lights that don't have optics in front of the light).

Even if the 120D has more power than you need, it's really nice because there are a lot of accessories that allow you to shape and nuance the light effectively, such as the fresnel attachment (the new one is a much better design than the original) with barn doors. And for the ultimate control, you could use the leko attachment, which makes a very clean, precise, well-defined beam. It's also the light I'd choose if I were buying this to keep, since it can also be a used as a key or fill, depending on the situation. You can always dim it down to 2%.

As Frank suggests, rent or buy Dedolights (the new LEDs are very expensive, but you can find used tungsten ones) for the ultimate control in a small light. And you can often find Source 4 lekos really cheap, too-- though you'd probably have to dim them for this task, so factor in a solid dimmer.

If you're set on buying and want to go cheaper still, I think Nanlight makes a 60w light that looks pretty good, accepts similar accessories to Aputure.

Yes thats true, but a 120D is also a lot bigger then the mini's. Will get a 600D or 300D II anyways so might not make sense to get a 120D or 120t as well.

 

[petod]

Hello,

I was rewatching seven (its been a while). But how do you reckon the following was lit? What light is hitting morgan freeman in the face, its not from the practicals, but it is flagged off so good that you dont see any spill anywhere on the walls. I did something similar on the spot a year ago, was just run and gun. But this looks 10000 times better then what I came up with.
It looks like 2 practicals, and 1 hard light(or is it a soft light) hitting his face flagged off properly, and then another soft china lantern or something lighting up the room?

Especially interested in the face light.

Thanks poki

Looks more like a small, hard source (Dedo or snooted fresnel) than a Kino. The light is too controlled with very tight falloff.

Also feels very Se7en style underexposed overall so the face pops while everything else drops into shadow.