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Almost ALL modern lighting kits will work fine but what you need are the accessories which make the entire task of lighting your sets so much easier. The four things you MUST have onset are numerous sheets of colour correction gels such as CTO (Colour Temperature Orange), CTB (Colour Temperature Blue), CTG (Colour Temperature Green) which corrects your lighting to the available lighting or actual current lighting conditions such as 3200 degrees Kelvin (tungsten bulb-based older house lighting), 4200 to 4500 degrees Kelvin which corrects to tubular-based fluorescent lights STILL USED in many offices and industrial sites, and 6500 to 7500 degrees Kelvin which is bright sunlight. Then you need a light meter from Sekonic to allow you to find accurate light levels in Lumens and/or foot/candles and for video and stills, I say the best bang for the buck is the Sekonic Litemaster Pro L-478D-U for $313 US which works for BOTH still photography and video production.
Specifications:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...ic_401_474_litemaster_pro_l_478d_u_light.html
The reason you WANT a light meter and colour correction gels is to keep the LOOK of your colour and light the SAME across story-connected scenes and in order to do that you need to know how much light is being reflected off of various surfaces such as people's faces into the camera. Then you adjust your camera's iris (i.e. exposure setting) to match all scenes to a specific lighting level in Lumens. The light meter is a fancy portable luminance measurement computer giving you a simple numerical value which you match across all the rest of your related scenes once you set-in-stone your favorite lighting look.
The gels are put in front of the lights to ensure that the light reflected off of your subjects faces MATCHES what is being given off by local natural lighting such as the moon, the sun, candles, office and warehouse lights, street lights, etc. You're looking at about $80 for a good set of heat-resistant gels.
I personally always have THREE sets on me so I can have multiple versions of gels for each light I use in my 3-point light setups. YOU ABSOLUTELY WILL tear and lose some gels on any given shoot so ORDER AT LEAST THREE SETS ($300 US total!) i.e. at least ONE SET per major key, fill and flood light.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/838310-REG/Digital_Juice_DJ_CC_GEL_KIT_DJ_Gel_Kit.html
For lighting kits, I personally use the Lowel PRO series LED kits such as the following:
http://lowel.tiffen.com/kits/pro-led-3-light-ac-kit.html
These are expensive at $3200 US but they are built TOUGH and have never let me down, and since the come in their own shipping case that works great for me who does a lot of local AC powered filming in warehouses and industrial sites. If you want ALL battery powered lights then the
http://lowel.tiffen.com/kits/prime-location-pro-power-led-kit.html
with their battery accessories is OH SOOO GREAT for video and stills!
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Now what I am about to say is a bit of cinematography heresy, but if you can't spend $3200 to $4500 per lighting kit, then these Milwaukee Tool worklights from Home Depot in USA and/or Canada will absolutely work for you IF YOU ALWAYS USE COLOUR CORRECTION GELS! Always check how much HEAT is given off the set lights to ensure your FIRE RESISTANT gels don't overheat, melt and/or catch fire from the worklights! You may have to offset the gels with a few extra centimeters/inches AWAY from the light surface itself to keep the gels cool enough.
$200 US - 3000 Lumens FLOOD light (Remember to get multiple batteries and battery chargers to save your shooting day!):
https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p....ed-acdc-flood-light-tool-only.1001011621.html
and the
More spot-like TrueView LED light stand at 2000 Lumens and $250 US:
https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.m18-trueview-led-stand-light.1001011522.html
TWO or THREE of each lighting type and ENOUGH EXTRA MILWAULKEE BRAND BATTERIES and BATTERY CHARGERS that match the lights being used on set to last a full 12-to-16 hour shooting day will work IF you ensure you ALWAYS use the colour correction gels. Usually you use CTB and CTO gels for daylight and interior sets so you will be spending about $1800 total on this lighting gear and batteries which will work wonders for you budget filmmakers!
For BOTH video and still photography, NOW SET THE WHITE BALANCE on your camera with a solid bright white card held against your subject's face to ensure proper skin tones in all sorts of lighting conditions. As a director, I literally want to see the whites of their eyes as being white and not some weird orange or blue colour so MATCH your gels to the available local light. AND as a director I want to see some small amount of shadow on one side of an actor or model's face to give them some extra 3D depth definition so use a three point lighting setup with a Key light on the camera right side (soft or hard spotlight your choice but the light should NOT blast out skin tones to bright white on camera - you should be able to see the actual skin texture no matter the actor or model's skin colour) , a soft fill that is a bit darker on the camera left side of the face to give a 3D effect and some softer back fill lighting on their shoulders to separate them from any background. To soften the light, use some SPUN light filters which DIFFUSE your lights. Use as many as you wish to soften any local harsh looking lights. If you have enough gel and spun sheets, you can also tape some gels AND/OR spun against windows or local built-in lighting sources to balance out or diffuse any overly harsh or super-bright incoming light.
ROSCOlux Soft Spun Filtersat $7 per sheet and get 15 sheets at least for a total of $105 US:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/43743-REG/Rosco_RS10611_106_Filter_Light.html?sts=pi
I personally like to use the Lowel Pro cinema lights but since I have 20 sets of them in our inventory, I don't have to worry about availablity BUT for those budget film makers who NEED to save a bit of money I DEFINITELY LIKE the MILWAULKEE TOOL brand worklights for on-set lighting and their AWESOME AND LONG-LASTING BATTERIES !!!!!
The above is of course for VIDEO SETS but if you're doing only stills then buy only four lights total, Two Spot Lights and Two flood fills plus gels, batteries and chargers for about $1200 total in costs!
I hope this helps!