From the course: Lighting a Video Interview

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Stands

Stands

So, unless you plan to have a lot of people standing around your set holding lights, you're probably going to need stands, and these allow you to successfully place the lights in different parts. We've got a couple of different types here, starting with a basic lighting stand, and moving up to a Sentry stand. Jim, why don't you walk us through sort of the benefits of each type here? >> Well, first of all, they all are standard in one respect, that they all have this connector at the top, which is a 5/8 stud that pretty much meshes with just about any light we would ever use. They just go right into this into this port here. So no matter what kind you get they're all going to have this interchangeability. So, where they vary is in size, and material. I mean you, you go from very compact, portable stands like, like this Manfrotto stand that will get pretty tall. It starts out small as you can see, but it'll, it'll will extend out to five, 6ft for most of your needs. To the meat and…

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