Hello,
We are a club in Tacoma, Washington and we are a student run club in a local high school so our budget is not too grand. Right now we stand at $400 for our film. We have a couple of questions for you,
We are making a film that has a lot of night scenes in a forest, with ?dark? figures moving in them. We are using a Sony VX-1000 for now which has a minimum Lux of 4. We are wondering how we could go about doing the night scenes without having pitch black backgrounds. Would a blue gel work? Is there any filters/computer effects that will give us the ability to film in the daytime. We have access to almost any software out there and we have connections to get filters cheap.
-Thank you
It?s called ?day-for-night? and done all the time. I don't like the way day-for-night shooting looks, so I can't really give you a list of filters because all my experience is in shooting night-for-night.
One of the great things about shooting on video is how cheap it is to try something long before you have a cast and crew waiting around.
Have you done any tests? Gone out in the forest, shot some footage and played around with filters in your editing program?
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how do you shot night-for-night?
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how do you shot night-for-night?
Night-for-night simply means shooting at night.
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