Saturday, March 10, 2007

The Blue Screen Saga Continues

Another import aspect of blue screens is lighting, so on Friday I went to investigate the lighting available. As expected the normal everyday lights (I.e. the ones you find in homes) were within price range, but they seemed to be a bit weak, I want something with a bit more power, so I looked further field and discovered these…


Professional studio lights! Only problem is they’re a lot more expensive. That first light costs $210.75 and the other $166.95! This doesn’t include accessories like barn doors (for directing the light) and a stand. The total price for everything was $964.54! Way out of my price rang! Never mind, now I know what kind of lights I’m looking for I’ll attempt to get cheaper equivalents from a hardware store. They probably won’t be as good, but since the area I need to light isn’t that big it shouldn’t matter too much.

At the place that sells the professional lighting I was informed they also sold 3.8L of special blue screen paint for $180 - that make the first place I went to seem reasonable!

During my investigation I also looked into suitable “blue screen” curtains and discovered curtains can get quite expensive too - $46 for 1 x 1.4 metres! One place claims they have curtains in Ultramarine Blue and Chroma Key Blue but they have to get back to me next week on the prices.

I’m getting quite bored with the research so I think its time to start doing something interesting… Maybe I’ll start sketching out a few ideas for the megalith…

1 comment:

Becca said...

Justin used to use some big doom lights when we were fighting in his backyard at night... I think one of them might have died, but you should ask him.