From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Lighting
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Shiny boards
Male 1: So, in situations where you need a little bit more of a reflective surface in a larger size, a shiny board is a perfect option. Not only does it have more physical size of reflective surface, as you can see here, it actually doesn't need to be held. This particular one I just have mounted onto a C-Stand. I have this frame here mounted to the C-Stand, and then these little bolts right here actually position the shiny board. So the cool thing about shiny boards, is that if your on a really tight budget, you can actually make the shiny board yourself. Simply get a piece of heavy duty card board or foam board or something like that. And just put some tin foil on it. That's pretty cheap. But here I actually have a professional shiny board and this particular one has two different reflective surfaces on it. So this front surface that I'm looking at right now is really shiny. And this is called as silver lumen. This going to give you a nice direct sort of reflection, on to the…
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