Lighting night interiors

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a couple different techniques and approaches to lighting night interiors for film. getting the cinematic look, and cinematic lighting are very subjective and tricky tasks. this video touches on a few techniques and practices that I have developed and learned over the years. as always, there are no right answers and this is a look at a few ways to approach the look we see in movies and films. there are more ways to do it, and even this is not a fully finished look. testing like this can allow you to better communicate to your gaffer what you are looking for, it can even reveal little tricks, just like the iPhone flashlight revealed to me in this video, and it can make you a better image maker overall.

All footage had the same look (a look that I built over the years) applied in davinci resolve. Shots were not individually altered, same exact grade on every clip.

equipment used:
Arri Alexa mini LF
Great Joy Blazar 50mm 1.8x anamorphic T2.9 lens
2 forza 500 daylight LED lights
aputure light dome II with diffusion and grid
2 aputure B7 bulbs
1 aputure MC LED light
unknown light that I will post the name of when it is in front of me next.

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