Extras for Video Production Light Kits

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"I went through some of the basic stuff, I think, that makes up your basic do-it-yourself. But there's some more advanced stuff that you can grab, and I think really can make this kit a lot more valuable. It's almost like sending you on the road for when you do start making your own real light kit, this is some stuff you could really use for that. One thing, non-essential but could be kind of useful here, is a dimmer switch. This is, believe it or not, some kind of dimmer switch for some kind of electrical thing that I found. It actually works and has a variable control. You can find online ways to make your own dimmer switch, but I didn't want to mess with that and I found this. It's on full but you can see I can just dim it. One problem with this, sometimes you'll get a little bit of noise when you dim it. Dimmer light -not too necessary. You can, like I said, move the light further away to dim it instead of this, might be a better option. The next things are these alligator clips, a lot like your C47s but very heavy duty, very strong. Don't clamp this down on anyone's antique chair or anything when you're using your lights, but it can come in handy. I've got some gaffer tape, non-reflective tape. It's just a great thing to have in the kit for random things you find you're needing tape for, you don't go scrambling for tape and then grab something that's not that great. Just good tape, non-reflective. We have some black wrap here, which is basically black foil, which you might be able to use to clamp on lights and get a more directional approach because you're using it to block out some light. But, the most important thing, I think, in this more advanced do-it-yourself light kit are these light stands. These are real light stands but they're cheap. These only cost me $20 and they're for a real basic, but semi-professional light kit. Find these online. I bought the cheapest ones I could find at $20 a piece, but they work great. As you see at the top here you've got a place to put on your professional light, but all I'm doing is throwing on my bar towel and clamping on my clamp light, and, there we go, light on a stand. It's some more advanced stuff to add to your light kit. Definitely think about picking up these cheap stands because you're not always going to have a place to clamp on your lights, and clamping them can get pretty annoying. So, it's some more advanced stuff for your kit."