What’s the most unusual use of a VELVET you have come up with?



Toward the end of The Orville, I took two Power 2x2s and put them up in a condor for a little bit of moon ambient backlight. I had them at 5600 full power on an 80-foot condor at full stick. We used an HMI as well because the shot was so wide, but I think in the future I would use 4 or 6 of them and run them across the basket. I’m hoping to try that when Orville starts up again.



I’ve used especially the Mini 1s as light sources in the shot. We can either hide them well, or they sell as a practical light source in an alley with a little sodium vapor gel. I’ve even used them to mimic fluorescent fixtures hanging straight down with the grids in.



I’ve used the Power 2×2 on the ground as a fire source. On the dimmer board we had a flicker effect. On Orville we shot an exploding spaceship engine core, and we had smoke and two Velvets. I could lay them almost flat, and hide them from camera, but they had some punch, and in the background it looked like this big fire going on.