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Topic: LIGHTING A HORROR MOVIE PLEASE HELP!
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Chino
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posted 03-25-2000 03:59 PM
Hi,
In my movie, there are quite a few scenes which are shot at night. I know that you can shoot during the day and change the f-stops , but whats the best way to lighting at night? I don't want it to look like there is actual "light", to keep the dark effect. I have 3 halogen lights to my disposal...any ideas? |
Benny
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posted 03-26-2000 07:48 PM
A common way of lighting a night scene is to use Blue Filters over the lights.. Transparent Blue Plastic or similar will do just fine too, just put it infront of the light to get a blueish light. You can also spread the light over a bigger area by pointing the light toward something white, like a big white piece of paper or similar and let the paper reflect the light toward the actors/scene. and you can put the light high above the scene to get the feeling of a moon above the set, it all depends on what scene/mood you're trying to create. if you got any questions you're welcome to email me, email addy can be found in my stats.
I hope this helps or gives you some new ideas.------------------
Benny |
ebrigman
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posted 03-28-2000 11:20 AM
the key is to light specific areas in the frame but not everything in the frame... allow enough light so the dark stands out... allow charcters to walk through areas of light and shadow ..... backlight can be effective seperating the character from the background without lighting the character
Day for night is an effective tool, at times... but experiment and see what you think works
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Benny
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posted 03-28-2000 05:06 PM
And the two methods mentioned above can also be mixed as one to achive some great effects, it all depends on what mood you want. i saw some great lighting in a horror flick called "Fatal Frames", i think it's an all Italian movie, very cool lighting in that movie, try to get it and see how they did some amazing lighting to light there night sets *S*------------------
Benny | |
