What equipment is necessary to film a low budget documentary?

I mean really low. I have a camera lined up. I am working on getting audio recording equip and a boom and lavalier mic.
I will be filming indoors and outdoors. What will I need for lighting? A spotlight? A softbox? both?

basically, what is the very least I need aside from the script which obviously I have, the camera, sound.

A camera, a mic, a light with a stand (you can use a 500 watt halogen work lamp…It’s cheap…You can probably get away with using just one (I’ve done it before), but I’d suggest at least two…Look up "three-point lighting" on google), and a reflector board (which’ll replace the soft light in the three-point lighting set-up). That would require a crew of three…The camera operator, the boom operator, and the guy who holds the reflector board.

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One Response to What equipment is necessary to film a low budget documentary?

  1. Adam says:

    A camera, a mic, a light with a stand (you can use a 500 watt halogen work lamp…It’s cheap…You can probably get away with using just one (I’ve done it before), but I’d suggest at least two…Look up "three-point lighting" on google), and a reflector board (which’ll replace the soft light in the three-point lighting set-up). That would require a crew of three…The camera operator, the boom operator, and the guy who holds the reflector board.
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