Jared Paul | Gaffer💡

work for @kia.worldwide x @leagueoflegends In total there were 3x 30s-spots of which two of them were located inside a Kia EV3 parked on a parking lot infront of LEC Arena. The challenge for this was to build something outside (hell yeah wind…) yet simple and flexible enough to have control over ever-changing lighting conditions (cloudy sun) - but also taking care of reflections/ being ready for windshield shots. —> taking control 💡 I pre-lit everything within @elixxiersoftware to see which minimum size frame I’d need to fly overhead and with certain focal lengths in mind. Since this software is photometrically correct I could also realistically light it with the light‘s I planned on using. I also got to test V3 Beta where the options are endless so I utilized HDRI Maps for more realistic planning, also with reflections - which was super helpful for this scenario. I played around with different looks and decided to go with an Ultrabounce (white side down) as the overhead since it entirely blocked the sun, also wouldn’t soak up too much in case of rain. And since the car wasn’t moving in the scene I also dropped the idea of going with Black Scrim (where you still see overhead reflections passing by… like trees/branches). White side down? I tested it and it looked better than black side down because black felt more present. Skypanel S360 as key with some help of an 8‘x12‘ Ultrabounce - which really helped with more punch in case of the sun coming out… keeping it proportionally 🤝🏽 Two T5‘s as rim and a 12K Dino for background extension on the reverse shot. Production @innocean.eu Producer Naomie Mahray @eimoanaomie Creative Producer Morten Frantz Director/DP @fynnopynno Creative Director Timo Kanehl Art Director: @johnny_schepp + Ana Magdalena Marques Gaffer @primogaffer BBE @erik_hellfeier SLT @niklasschraut AC @niclaslenhard Prod. Sound Mixer @lukashasiba

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Work for @dunkindonuts_de Shooting a commercial in a bus was a first! 🚌 Lighting big window fronts can be challenging especially with limited resources. But that’s why (generally) recces are important in order to make a solid game plan. Slide 2️⃣: Sun position/cylce of shooting day ☀️ DP wanted to go with a hard afternoon sunlight look for this one. Slide3️⃣: I originally thought about building a truss build on two stands with a 12x20 topper to extend/cast shadow and place a couple fixtures beneath it to cover the window front. Which I think would‘ve worked flawlessly also with "hiding“ your setup on camera. —> but we didn’t have the capacity to do so. Lacation‘s roof helped with broadly blocking the sun, creating some shade which enabled us to go with smaller fixtures, too. Setup on Slide 1️⃣: We were shooting in the back of the bus later due to sun positioning. 3x similar in output fixtures on the side acted as our sun. Sun into CRLS-100 DIFF2 for fill on the ceiling in the bus (especially for wider shots) 20’x20‘ Black Art. Silk 1/4 to take some edge of the sun coming through the front. (not the best for this purpose but worked fine. also being a net/black silk helped with wind in that case) Slide 4️⃣: On this push-in shot the sun was backlighting the bus, except it didn’t entirely due to the roof. That‘s why I added a Evoke 1200 as a controlled sun/backlight on our favored position. Sun again into CRLS-100 DIFF1 creating a nice harsh sunlight on our Bus Driver‘s body. This and an old italian 4K HMI Fresnel pushing into a 12‘ Art. Silk for a nice big and soft fill. which was also acting as a bounce too once the sun was out. —> giving us that nice SOFHOB look (soft on face, hard on body) Some Solid T-Bone to give it some shape, and we were running everything off a 15kVA Diesel Generator. Client: @dunkindonuts_de Production: @focasfilms   Director: @nils.castner DP: @_moritzforster AC: @julian_gehrig Gaffer: @primogaffer BBE: @xrdrey Key Grip: Thomas Spitzbart  Genny Op: Julian Krauthäuser  Grip/BTS: @mustafaahmed.aim3 BTS: @moritz.knoellinger HMUA: Elisa Schaller Editor: @nils.castner Colorist: @jared.film

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It doesn’t always have to be complicated!☀️💡 For this intro scene of NEO TENIA (feature film concept) We only used 2 lights. —> Coverage with lots of wide angle shots challenged the lighting / or forced us to keep it simple, besides budged. Exterior: A 12K Maxi Brute/Dino or actually 10K for that shot because 2 bulbs went down (we shot this opener last) and an Arri M40 HMI bulbed with a 2.5K globe for the front/ first bit of the dolly tracks (12K Dino extension) Through some 1/2 CTO and 1/2 CTS + 1/2 White Diff (LEE 250) to match the 12K tungsten. interior: 12K Dino thru big window on easy lift (~6m) and 1K Baby to extend where the 12K couldn’t hit. No more than a 4x4 solid floppy for the close up. The final setup seams simple - which it is but planning was key to get the most bang for the buck and also for having the best fixture for this huge window. I preferred the 12K over any HMI. Maximum we could do power-wise was M90 with a 6K globe. (We had 32A & 16A three-phase on location) We were planning to go warmer in color temperature anyway, since we wanted a “lower-standing sun” look - and tungsten is so cheap and “plug and play” compared to HMIs. (this project was super low-budged) So in the end, I just needed to figure out and calculate whether a 12K would be bright enough to overpower the ambient light. With the help of @lightcalc.io I was able to quickly decide on what fixture would do the job. Of course all of that was dependent on the type of weather. But I was going all-in on overcast ambience, based on weather forecast. Plus it was winter so I had high hopes. Production: @focas.films Writer/Director: @nils.castner PM: @chrisduewel DP: @_moritzforster 1st AC: @julian_gehrig PD: Julius Castner Set Designer: @wasnunjune Costume Designer: @nastyaawwwwww Gaffer: @primogaffer Key Grip: Thomas Spitzbart BBE: @erik_hellfeier BBE: @niklasschraut SLT: Matthes Rommel SLT: @marius.krft SLT: Julius Enczmann  SLT: Christian Haubold   HMUA: @susi.retter   PA: @moritz.knoellinger Prod Sound: @raphi_m_fits Sound Design & Mix: Steve Wühr Editor: Nils Castner Colorist: @jared.film Cast: @thienphuoc__nguyen @annaafiliz Stefan Drücke

You would want this for every project but for this tv-commercial in particular it was key to have consistent lighting. Meaning weather changes (sun, clouds, rain, snow) shouldn’t affect your lighting. Especially since this was shot in January. Throughout the first day of production it was sunny, cloudy, rained and snowed towards wrap. 1) I was utilizing two @aputure.lighting LS 1200D/Storm 1200X into an 8x8 Ultrabounce to give consistent ambient levels through the sheers. Additionally a CRLS 50 #2 for some punch extension onto sheers on the side. Sunny side of the 'sunroom' was blocked with solid /duvetyne as well as the top. A @nanlux_global 2400B for the sunny punch also giving her a nice edge light, but with an open end art. silk in between to keep the hard light on the background but softer on her. Two F22C‘s as a key+wrap on a D650 Junior Boom. Infinibar PB12 as a light rim/background seperation. Infinibar PB6 into a small bounce board to lift the package/box. And some more solid inside to kill the spill. 5+6) Bonus: Days are short in January. Keeping the lighting consistent for the ›office shot‹. 7+8) Night for Day with some morning sun (waking-up shot) 9)🚨 Client: @liebscher.bracht Production: @grizzmount + @grainlab.media Talent: @diane.boedrich Director: @kreativernickname DP: @niko.sprl AC: @paul.winning Gaffer: @primogaffer Spark: Martin Molenda Set Decorator: Lars Werneke, Maike Schiffler Ass. Set Decorator: Hanna Composer+Sound Designer: @julian_m_michel Editor+Colorist: @niko.sprl @grizzmount

I’m a big fan of CRLS, but they’re not always the best choice for lighting a scene. I’ve been guilty using them unnecessarily - overcomplicating a setup for only a minor improvement. Not with this one though. The goal was to create sunlight, highlighting the girl during a pregnancy conflict counseling session—visually reflecting the emotional weight of her decision—while keeping the counselor more in shadow. The scene was set in a raised ground floor office, and since the budget and logistics didn’t allow for a condor or big stands like a @Avenger Long John Silver (which would’ve safely reached the height), we had to find another way.
That’s where the @thelightbridge C-100s came in - on wind-ups at about 4m, just reaching top window height. Keeping fixtures on floor stands and aiming them up, got us the right angle thanks to physics. Plus it kept the footprint of the setup narrow so we didn’t need to shut down the plaza. The first window was used as our key: an @arri D25 paired with an @aputure.lighting 1200D. Both into a C-100 DIFF1, which combined and blurred them into one source - essentially doubling the output - and gave us a wider spread and beam angle (something you tend to lose when bouncing into a relatively small, distant square), while still packing enough punch.
On the other window we had roughly half the output - 2x @Arri D12 - same setup, pushing “sunlight” through the background window. From there, we only needed to shape the light for close-ups: some neg, and I think a ¼ White Diffusion to take the edge off on her coverage.
For the reverse, besides the natural bounce off a prop document on the desk, just a bounce board to wrap the light. Slide 5+6: A “Night for Day”. Next time I’ll fix the double shadow though 🥲
Slide 7: Bonus
Slide 8: DP with his signature angle PM @aberttv 
DIR @xdrey 
AD @nils.castner 
DP @_moritzforster 
AC @julian_gehrig 
CLT @primogaffer 
BBE Julius Enczmann
Sound @yannik.horn Matthew, Asher
HMU @marleyy.bae 
Editor @xdrey 
Colorist @jared.film

Gaffer + Color 💡🎨 work for @levis (spec ad) Levi‘s - True Love Begins With An Old Jeans (Commercial) // My favorite project of past year! Got to shoot in a to me very familiar area of Catalonia, Spain.😊 Stills and lighting set up of each, also including some behind the scenes photos. Some shots were nice and easy just lit with sun and bounces some others required to block the current sun to create our own lighting direction to be able to shoot in that tight schedule. On the last day (first 2 slides) it was raining. All in all the setups turned out exactly how I‘ve had planned them. Just adapted to different blocking or weather conditions. Let me know what you think of these breakdowns! Director: Tom Ruckes @tom_rks EP: Tom Ruckes & Delia Eifeler @tom_rks @deleeyuh Production: @405curated DP: Oscar Tiedge @oscartiedge AC: Timm Biedermann @timm.biedermann Gaffer: Jared Paul @primogaffer Lighting Tech: Lorenz Sponholz @lorenzsponholz Lighting Tech: Jan Ruckes @ruc.kes PD: Delia Eifeler & Jan Ruckes @deleeyuh @ruc.kes Sound Design & Mix: Jojo Grote @jojo_grote Editor: Jay Benzler @jaybenzler Colorist: Jared Paul @jared.film VFX: Marlene Sandmann @marlenesndm Hair & Makeup: Julia Waltner @juwa.makeupartist Photography: Pau Recasens @pau_recasens Rental: @napalmrentals

Head over to YouTube to see how we did the lighting for this driving car scene! (link in bio) 🚗💡⚡️ Passenger Princess: @desireekottwitz Upset Driver: @isabelle.art.ffm EP: @jared.film Gaffer: @primogaffer DP/Cam Op: @paul.pokes Producer + HMU: @juwa.makeupartist Lighting Tech: @timm.biedermann Grip + BTS: @lucchevalierr #gaffer #filmlighting #cinematography #nanlite #crls