Hi folks, looking for some thoughts on how to make a low budget lights setup for a travelling wrestling show (WWE style, nothing with actual regulations etc). We mostly work in local community centres (think basketball court/school PE room) and rely on their overhead lighting, but with our Youtube channel starting to grow rapidly and competition in our region growing, we feel like some proper lighting is the next step in upping our production values, as the overhead lighting can create quite noisy footage and photos when it's dark out.
We'd need to light the entrance stage and the ring. The ring is 16ftx16ft, and 3ft off the ground. The entrance stage is about 2m wide tall and is located about 3m off from one side of the ring.
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We're not looking for much in terms of fancy effects etc. Mostly just requiring a setup we can set up and take down quickly that will flood the ring with white light that isn't going to flicker on camera or blind the audience/the wrestlers. We don't have a need for intricate control over the lights, at least at this moment, though it might be nice to look into that down the road.
What we were thinking was a winch stand on the left and right side of the ring about 3m away (Kuzar K-3 looked like it might do the job, though concerned 5.25m won't be high enough), a T-bar on each, and two LED par cans facing into the ring on each, and one facing the stage on each.
Does this seem like it will do the job? Is there going to be electrical concerns that would mean we'd need an expert in, or is it easy enough to hook up? And is there any recommendations on decent affordable lights that will do the job?
