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Lighting and the final steps to light-proof the room

Lighting and the final steps to light-proof the room

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Lighting and the final steps to light-proof the room

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- Installing the safelight brought us a few challenges. It's a very heavy safelight, and I wanted to very securely mount it, so we actually went through the ceiling with heavy steel wire up to a joist in the attic to be sure we could support the weight adequately. Then we used an S-hook to a chain that actually is connected to the light itself. This is a very heavy-duty safelight, and the reason why we're using it is it provides bright illumination that will help us when we're filming the later sequences. That being said, there's a lot of other choices in safelights that are much lighter weight, and much less expensive. This is about a $300 unit, and the replacement bulbs are about $35 each. There's several safelights on the market that are based on just an incandescent lightbulb that use a red filter that are a much more affordable solution. What we did to connect it, is remember earlier I showed you a light-socket-to-Edison adapter, and we've just screwed that into one of the light…

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