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I’d say having one or two COB type lights to illuminate the boards/scrims will do. They don’t need to be particularly powerful nor all that large, however you can get whatever may work for other kinds of videos you may end up making at the same time. Sadly I don’t have a lot of BTS type stuff showing how this is all done as it’s just been something I did way back in the day and we never really took the time to shoot any of those kinds of photos while we were working. I bet there are some you might be able to find if you searched on YouTube though. That said, you should get a few sheets of foamcore at a local art supply house and some exacto blades and just put them all around the lens of the camera (I will sometimes use the exacto blade to cut out a hole for the lens to shoot through so the maximum amount of lit up board is reflected in the metal. As far as the tiny specular lights are concerned I’m not too sure what might work best these days. Back when I was doing jewelry, we had to use these really clunky small incandescent lights that really kinda sucked. Now there are tiny LEDs that have huge power output for their size and can be pretty tightly focused. Sorry but I don’t have any manufacturers or models on this but look around for tiny LED spots for jewelry lighting and you’ll probably find something. (Holy cats! Check out these! https://a.co/d/0acCFaXY) If you were to put one or more of those around the gems (maybe stuck to the foamcore boards) you could get some good fire into the gems.