How do you achieve this look?

[omar robles]

Hello talented dps.

I love the look of this video. It was shot with RED ONE cameras fitted with anamorphic lenses. I realize the flares come from shooting anamorphic but how do you guys think this video was lit? If i had to guess it seems they were lit primarily with overhead kinos.


thanks in advance
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[omar robles]

David mullen was kind enough to answer this question on another forum site. He thinks they were achieved with cool whites and 3200k on camera. Could it realy have been that simple?

[jake blackstone]

You should probably ask Christopher Probst how he did this. I'm pretty sure he shot it.

[David Mullen ASC]

You could also gel any lamp to get that cyan color, especially if the fixtures are not in the shot. Overhead Cool White fluorescents are the simplest way of getting the color in a diner location like that, assuming the camera is balanced for tungsten, not daylight, since Cool Whites are around 4800K plus green.

Here's a frame from something I shot using Cool White tubes (plus the small tungsten desk lamp) on tungsten-balanced film stock:


By the way, I'm just making an educated guess as to how that video was lit, I don't know for sure.

[Christopher Probst]

Of course to really discuss the lighting in the Space Bound video, you really need to talk at least about each scene, if not each shot... There are different tools and approaches used for each environment. I'm not going to say in general it was all overhead kinos. It wasn't. Even trying to break down the night exteriors, each location used a different approach. The mountain side road, which was shot in a real torrential downpour, was not the same as shooting the diner set placed in a motel lot in a remote town a hour north of LA.

Yes I shot the video on a Red One MX. The diner interior was shot with the camera set at around 4500k with a 1/4 CTB on the camera and Hawk V series Anamorphics. The scene used a variety of sources and colors. There ARE overhead kinos rigged into the center ceiling structure of the diner. Those were 4-bank 8' fixtures with daylight tubes, and gelled with half CTB, half Plus Green, and 216. Additionally, there are dimmed tungsten wall sconces, some Dedolight backlights gelled with half CTB and inside the grilled area,and some tungsten Kino tubes gelled with full CTO. So color temperatures ran the gamut! Smoke played an important part of the look of the video as well...

[omar robles]

Thank you Cristopher. Appreciate you sharing your techniques with me (and the others on this forum) One very last question. For the Lady GaGa video Love Game you shot. How was that lit? The lighting so illuminous.

again thanks for everything

[Björn Benckert]

I know it, Hawk's is the key :)

[Christopher Probst]

For the Lady GaGa video Love Game you shot. How was that lit? The lighting so illuminous.

Which shot? There are about 6 main set-piece sequences in the video...

[omar robles]

[omar robles]

http://i2.listal.com/image/4005321/500full.jpg

This two looks