How to Achieve Soft Top-Light | Budget vs. High-End

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As a cinematographer, you're going to have to know how to setup a large overhead soft light. Every production, from commercials to music videos to Marvel films, use them at varying degrees. We're going to teach you how to make it two different ways - the indie way and the Hollywood way. We're joined by Danny Boldroff from Honeycrates and Martin Torner from Matthews Studio Equipment to demonstrate how it's done.

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[danielschiffer]

I remember Martin from another video! He convinced me to get the Matthews Mini-Max boom stand- one of the best investments I've made!!!

[memathews]

This is a master class in lighting, grip, and rigging, in a 20-minute wrapper. From soft light theory to griphead weight alignment to basic rigging knots and safety. I'll be playing this for every neophyte grip before letting them on set.

P.S. I was practically screaming at the screen when y'all dropped the pin in place, gave it a crimp, and loosened the bolt to show the safety on that light. THEN you added the safety chain and I started breathing again--almost had a heartattack!

[thefutur]

perfect timing and the exact thing we need for our studio.

[ashay]

Ted saying - This is as indie as it gets
Me thinking - You have no idea how indie I can get

[scott_stevenson]

Apututre, Honey Crates, Matthews, this is like the Avengers collab. So awesome to see all you guys diving into this topic and showing these grip techniques. I work full time as Grip/Gaffer here in LA and we use giant overhead lighting like this for car and product commercials. I love that you guys are showing the proper way to rig. I would not consider this "Indy" because the gear cost thousands of dollars most filmmakers would not be able to afford or be able to transport these tools without a G&E Truck/Van.

[offcenterconcepthaus]

Go to Home Depot, grab 4 lengths of 1/2" conduit pre-cut 5-foot segments and some elbows; go to JoAnns and grab a 2-yard square of some bleached muslin. BLAST some light down the top of it. Flag it off to kill spill on the background. hang it from the your garage ceiling. GREAT product shoot setup. (grab some "weed killer" 36" roll for the flag)

[Bojac]

That “make sure the heavy thing is gonna fall in the same direction that the C-stand tightens” is maybe the clearest explanation of that I’ve seen.

Now which foot on the stand is the one that you always put the sandbags on?

[TimmyLodhi]

Man grip/gaffer folks know their shit. So much knowledge to be learned from them.

[Soonerblake]

I know I'm late to noticing this, but I just realized that this host is also the president of aputure 🤯. As a film student about to graduate and big fan of aputure lights, so cool to see a really humble and down to earth president of a company like that

[learningcameras]

Now I want to hang a 20ft softbox in my office lol. Awesome vid!

[tombuck]

You guys really help me to get a grip on all these grip techniques 👍

[LuisFernandoImperator]

The besy surprise: the Grip dude that talks like Tarantino is BACK!

[LalitRohidas]

The amount of quality content you post is amazing.. I can watch your videos all day continuously ❤️

[DetroitTintStudio]

woah perfect timing! I'm building a 20' x 20' for my window tint studio / channel. I'm in a big warehouse and hope I can create some nice even lighting

[giorgiomarangolo]

Sometimes I think you can read my mind. Thanks, exactly what I needed!

[alejandrotoscano]

This is one of the best things that i've learned on the last days, ill use it in our next indie film, tnx from Mexico

[brenthearn]

Been scouring the internet for months on how to make this exact size softbox + light combo
THANK YOU

[KSchawacker]

I was a corporate event production rigger for about a year before the pandemic. 2 ton motors, lighting truss, dmx'd stage lighting. This makes me miss my gig.

[TiempoFilmico]

The student film version: Take 5 big polystyrene panels, join them at the sides and at the top with some wire, dont forget to make a hole in the top panel to put your light in there, cover the sides with black plastic bags. Now youll need something to attach the light to some kind of hook.

Now just hang it in your location and thats it

[GunsOfAnthem]

A tip for any wanting to fix "clipped" voice audio like the audio in the this video. RX9 plugins has a great plugin that removes the clipping from your voice. Kinda works like magic! And has saved a couple of audio productions where I work.