The Solution to Everything!

Okay, so the guy has to walk down the hall holding a candle and it has to look convincing on 16mm film.

You start with your zoom lens set to 50mm which gives you a depth of field of approximately 19 feet to 6 feet. The actor starts at one end of the hall by walking into the hall with a candle. As he approaches the hallway, you slowly crank up a 600w CTO gel covered fresnel with a fader on the wall closest to the actors entrance. As the actor enters, the fresnel operator moves the light to the candle in the actors hands, thus making it appear that the candle is casting a soft orange glow. The actor proceeds down the hall until he's approximately 10 feet away. At that point, the candle flickers and the actor moves a hand to cover it - and this is the tricky part! As he covers the candle, the fresnel operator dims the light on the candle, while a second operator lying on the floor 10 feet out turns up his gel covered light to about 25% and points it up at the candle above him. The timing of this is crucial. If done right, it will appear that the actor has successfully covered the candle flame from the outside wind, and it will still continue to glow inside the man's hand and on the man's face at a consistent T-4. Then you simply, and quickly reverse this process, turning the lamp on the floor out at the same time that you bring the other lamp up. The actor then moves forward four feet and exits the hallway through a door on the other side of the hall. You also use a 600w light off a bounce board behind the camera to provide some soft fill in the hallway, which you filter through a cookie and a blue gel to give the hallway some added depth and shadows.

Okay, I admit that doesn't solve the world's problems - but it does give me a lighting design for my advanced cinematography class. And since I think its best not to open your mouth if you have nothing nice to say, I'll leave the rest of the world's problems for the rest of you to solve. ;)