Category Archives: Behind The Scenes

Since 2006 LiteGear has been involved in lighting many things. We have developed LED light-engines for everything from kerosene lanterns to the “Iron Man” chest light. But a recent project took us by suprise. Art Director Todd Cherniawski approached us with a request for lighting a special element for a rather high profile music video […]

Hunger Games: Catching Fire – FauxFlo in action. For the movie Catching Fire, Production Designer Phil Messina designed a dance floor which had elaborate standing chandeliers which he envisioned hundreds of fluorescent tubes as a large visual element in the set.  Phil wanted the tubes to change color during the dance sequence in the film, […]

Comic-Con 2012 was in full swing this past weekend and with the success of the recent Avengers movie, Marvel Studios is certainly attracting a lot of attention. As many of you know LiteGear has been involved in providing lighting gear and services to Marvel movies since IronMan 1. Movies that followed were IronMan 2, Thor, […]

Battleship the movie opens in theaters May 2012. Shot by Tobias Schliessler, ASC, the film takes place on a Naval Battleship. Early on in pre-production, we were fortunate to meet with Tobias and his gaffer Bob Krattiger to discuss LiteGear products and how they might help with some unique challenges they had. As you can imaging, shooting on actual […]

Our friend Pauline Rogers over at ICG Magazine has written a nice article about using LED lighting “outside the box”. We are thankful to be included, have a look.

On a recent Blackberry AT&T spot, director Michael Mann and Dp Roberto Schaffer were to be in a surveillance van with several actors tracking their subject. Taking place at night, the van was to be completely mobile during shooting and needed a high-tech interior look. Gaffer Mike Bauman assembled custom panels made from our LED […]

  With the entire spot taking place inside a practical van in downtown Los Angeles DP Pawel Edelman and Gaffer Erik Messerschmidt were faced with a tricky situation; How to light the practical interior in the moody style Pawel wanted while maintaining the flexibility to balance to constantly changing exterior ambiance and limit the setup […]

While May 7 is the release date for Ironman 2, the May issue of ASC Magazinereleases tomorrow April 26th. LiteGear’s first full page ad is among the few within the article featuring Cinematographer Matty Libatique. Once the film is released, we will be posting several behind the scenes images of sets and rigs. Check back […]

We are “On the Job” again with Sal Totino and Mike Bauman. This time in a bar with Heineken Beer and the brand new RED Mysterium X camera. This entire spot was lit with Warm White LED LiteRibbon. The guys were looking to do something beautiful but were pressed for time and faced with the […]

For a recent Budweiser commercial DP Mott Hupfel wanted a soft ambient tungsten light to cover the entire length of a 30′ bartop.  Mott wanted a quality of light that ideally would be shadowless and very flattering to the actors and the product.  xStrips loaded with 100w bulbs and covered with Light Grid diffusers worked […]