An All Night Binge with Darren McMullen: A Lighting Lesson

I was approached by Darren McMullen of MTV fame to shoot images for his new web site. He wanted a shot of him waking up the day after a drunken binge in a hotel room not knowing what had happened. My thought was to shoot a series of images that show the progression of the night as he proceeds to destroy the place. We light him on fire, broke bottles over his head and sprayed Champagne all over the place. I do say it was a lot of fun. This lighting lesson will show the basic lighting set up that we used for the series of shots. (Go to our Facebook page to see the image breakdown.)
Lots of effects and lighting direction in this one. We used the Kessler Shuttle pod for the film footage. Hope you enjoy.

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Darren's website is now live. Check it out.
http://darrenmcmullen.tv/

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[TheSlantedLens]

The fish were fine and are still living today. One of the crew took them home.

[KhrisBurton]

Damn! what have you done to those fishes!!!

[TheSlantedLens]

@KhrisBurton @jonnyhifi No worries, the gold fish are living happily today. One of the crew took them home.

[halohugs]

Jay P continues his genius! Bravo to Jay P and Darren :)

Freaking fantastic!

[TheSlantedLens]

@halohugs Thank you, thank you. You are too kind.

[urbermadrat]

Just checked out his website. Love the way you used items in the photo for the website info. Very clever! Just looking at the final image I would have never guessed that's what the items were for.

[urbermadrat]

Outstanding job guys. I really love the lighting breakdown you do.

[jonnyhifi]

I hope the fish weren't harmed :( that would have been wickedly pointless. I can't help but feel they came to a horrible end ... Apart from that the video was really interesting

[roadragebunny]

@darrenmcmullen Crazy ass clients are the best! Nice site btw! looking forward to seeing you take over all the things that um your taking over.

[TheSlantedLens]

@darrenmcmullen Thanks. The shoot was loads of fun.

[TheSlantedLens]

@roadragebunny This was project shot for Darren Mc Mullen for his web page. He was nice enough to let us use it for the videos as well. I have a wide range of clients form manufacturing companies to entertainment clients.