Cinematography - Host's Fireplace

This is perhaps my favorite shot. For this shot, I decided to create a fire in the fireplace without using real fire. I bought a 200 W tungsten bulb, and got Chris to wiggle it around in the fire place. I framed the shot so that the bulb was not seen. Then I placed another 100 W bulb in the fire place to constantly light the fireplace. These two lights simulated the fire, and cast shaodws that look like tehre was real fire in the fireplace. I also setup a cold light in front of Tim and wiggled a paper flag in front of it to create more shadows. I used my 105W CFL to setup a rim on Tim's hair to simulate moon light coming in from the windows. I set up the camera to be white balanced at 5000K, so the tungstens in the fireplace looked more orangish (more like fire). Then in post, I comped in a stock footage of fire within the fireplace to make it convincing.