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Posted by nobody special on 06/02/07 19:22
Ty, you probably also didn't need a teleprompter for the demo: you
basically can't use a standard lens-behind-an-angled-mirror prompting
system with Reflecmedia ringlight systems. The LED's can definitely be
picked up in eyeglasses or shiny items in a shot as well, requiring
tedious masking or correction in post.
Look, I didn't imply "it doesn't work, period"; I said, for someone
like the original poster, who is obviously operating on limited means,
it was expensive overkill, compared to standard systems using paint or
green or blue cloth, and that it presents problems of it's own. Have
you priced the cost of additional, wider sheets of the reflecmedia
glass-bead fabric? It is astronomical. You don't get a really big
piece bundled with the ringlight, it's just enough for a single person
and I'm not sure it's long/tall enough for a whole-body shot, even, at
that. Have you tried to key reflecmedia over more than six feet? The
throw of the LED's is relatively short and narrow, part of heir
working principle of retroreflectivity. If you kick up the power to
throw farther, you get more problems with eye and glasses reflections.
If you're using it close up, and need prompting, you are forced to put
the prompter on a screen to one side of the lens or under it; in any
case, it becomes very obvious you are breaking eye-contact with the
lens in that situation. I suppose you could use ear prompting instead
in such a case, but that also adds cost and other issues...
For a head and shoulders medium shot, reflecmedia is a successful
product, unless you also need prompter, or if the talent wears
glasses, or you need to shoot two or more people or a larger object or
set area. I would call it a niche product, that works best for the
situations it was designed for. I also think it's just way over-
priced.
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