Indoor scene

[The Seldon Plan]

So i'm just about on the verge of firing up my super8 for the first time. I've storyboarded out a short i'm going to make - most of which i'm going to shoot outdoors with ektachrome 64T.

I've got a few shots that i need to do indoors however. One of a bedroom with sunlight coming in through the window. As a super 8mm newbie i'm just wondering what the exposure is going to be like without any artificial light? Or is it suicide without any artificial light?

On that note if i were to need lighting what kind of filter/gel am i going to need if i use household lamps (that's about the size of what i can muster up for light sources).

Any info would be good fellas

Cheers
Paul

[BigBeaner]

64T is tungsten balanced (hence the T) so you should be fine shooting under tungsten lighting without gels. You should you ancillary lighting to bring up the exposure to a proper F-Stop. You could get away with it if you were shooting color neg, definitely 500T I've seen with no extra lighting.

I wish I could be more help but it's hard not see a plan of the place you're shooting, photos, etc. because these are all what DP's use when planning lighting out. I would gel the windows with 85 to bring them to tungsten balanced. This can be expensive and without it the sunlight from outside will be blue. The other option is just to avoid windows.

[gianni1]

If you've got an XL camera available light is ok. If it's not a XL camera get some high powered low wattage bulbs. Something like 50 or 85 watt that outputs 250 or 500 equivalents... Stick a few of them in the various lamps around the room. Get a few poster boards covered with foil for bounce.

Gianni 8)

[The Seldon Plan]

Thanks for the info guys! To be honest the sunlight coming through blue might not be such an issue. It's supposed to be a fairly melancholy scene so i suppose i could roll with that angle.

Poster boards and foil i will try however - it's not to most open of rooms but im shure there's a shot in there somewhere.

Cheers
Paul