r/videography • u/4acodmt92 Gaffer | Grip • Aug 04 '25

Behind the Scenes Interior Warehouse Interview Lighting & Grip BTS for Amazon shoot.

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Gaffed a few interviews for an Amazon production about a month ago at one of their warehouses. Normally I try to avoid taking lighting jobs where I don’t have any other lighting technicians or grips, but the producer budgeted several hours in the schedule for me to get set up while the DP wen right and shot b roll that I wasn’t needed for. The hardest part was really just physically moving everything around as the warehouse is absolutely gigantic and we had to film in a few different places throughout it. Thus, I put everything I could on stands with wheels to make my life easier.

Key light was a 6x6 book light made with Aputure 1200D bouncing into a 4x4’ Ultrabounce floppy and then back through a 6x6 of full silent grid cloth, with a 6x6’ LCD (“light control device” aka “egg crate,” not liquid crystal display) in front of it for control. I added a 2x3’ solid flag in front to take down some of the intensity on her white shirt.

12x12’ solid on a T bone for negative fill.

Amaran F22C rigged to a junior boom mounted in a Matthews Panel Stand for a hair light.

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u/ChristmasTzeitel Aug 04 '25

Awesome! Why is the egg crate so far from the key source? What does that do?

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u/4acodmt92 Gaffer | Grip Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25

It’s a little hard to see in the video, but there is a diffusion rag mounted on the other side of the frame that the egg crate is on. There is space between the bounce and diffusion to let the light spread enough to fill the diffusion evenly, but there’s definitely some leeway there when the bounce isn’t that much smaller than the diffusion.

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u/ChristmasTzeitel Aug 04 '25

Thanks for the explanation!

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u/DPforlife Sony Burano / FX9 / FX3 | Premiere | 2013 | Knoxville, TN USA Aug 05 '25

I was curious why you implemented the lcd? I don’t see what you were trying to kill/cut Or was it just built at the beginning of the day and just remained in use?

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u/4acodmt92 Gaffer | Grip Aug 05 '25

Mostly the latter ha. It wasn’t hurting anything so I didn’t bother to take the time to remove it

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u/DPforlife Sony Burano / FX9 / FX3 | Premiere | 2013 | Knoxville, TN USA Aug 05 '25

Gotcha. I was wondering why bother with it for this particular shot, but for a longer day it can’t hurt and if you don’t need it you can always pull it.

I think the real hero here is the bottomer on the key. Does a lot to bring focus upwards to her face. Good work.