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Hot lights and safety on set

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Hot lights and safety on set

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- You guys, this is not going to be music to your ears but when we do this, we're going to have to have a blacked out room. And the rim lights will be the only lights that'll be on. So I think we can eliminate the green gels out of that. I'll slide out of fluorescent white balance. Let's go with, like, half cut CTO. So we kind of push this towards the direction. These, um, Kevin these are hot lights, right? They are incandescent. Okay. They are called hot lights for a reason. You have to be careful with them, wear gloves. And they're also very crude in a certain sense, that if you want to take a stop out of a hot light, you have to physically put a net or a screen in there that knocks down the light by a component of one F stop. The LEDs now are fancy, right. You can dial in a color, a tone, you know, a brightness, a dimness, all that sort of stuff. I have no problems with the LED lights. But in this instance, a lot of those lights are panels, you know, for an interview, you know, put…

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