lighting Is this a good lighting kit?

[Conner Kent]

Hey everyone I am currently making a short film and I have most of the equiptment except for lighting. I do have this light kit that came with my green screen http://www.amazon.com/Lighting-Chromakey-Flourescent-lightstand-9004S-3/dp/B003Y31CAC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339724482&sr=8-1&keywords=2400+watt+softbox+lighting+kit
What do you guys think? Will this be good enough for my project?
These are my locations I need to light:
-School Classroom
-Boxing Ring (a small boxing area) shown HERE
-Street (I can use daylight for this and some small portable cheap lights for the night scene)
-Dining Room
SO these lights will pretty much be good for all scenes and enough for good lighting right? I can I guess buy some Color Gels but do you guys think this will be good enough why or why not?

 

[Zensteve]

Those ones are evenly split - 3 x 800w equivalents. (Will not be as bright as 3 tungstens)

I have the same brand in a 2 x 1k & 1 x 400 hairlight combo.

The stands are really cheap. Cheaper than Britek stands. Very top-heavy. Always need serious weight below. The plastic tighteners on mine have already started stripping - I've had to resort to pushing & pulling the poles in & out by brute force to raise & lower the heights lol.

The light heads themselves are not UL listed, btw.

Don't rely on these to light up huge expanses of space. I've taken to not even putting on the actual softbox diffusion piece, to get more out of them. I would not use these to illuminate your boxing gym, for example, all by themselves. Unless it's a night-interior walking in the darkness thing.

Having said that, for the price they ain't so bad. They work pretty well, when used in a setting scaled for them. You can also get replacement bulbs in different colour temps at Home Depot if using in conjunction with other colour light sources.

I guess in summary - they are pretty piss-poor quality, but beggars can't be choosers. They will do the job right, if positioned well for the actual frame. Not landscape illumination.

 

[scottspears]

For the money it's ok. You're not going to get much punch from it. Softboxes are great for small setups like interviews or a couple people talking in a scene, but don't expect to light large spaces. I would recommend 2 lights like the ones in the kit and then some kind of light that you can focus, like an Lowel Omni or Redhead.

Scott