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Make a day shot into Night


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Dear All,

 

 

I shot a feature film in Palestine in October 2007. The director contacted me today to ask me if we could make a day shot into night. I know that we could do this in DI but is it possible to do with an optical printing?

 

 

Let me know

 

Thank You all

 

Vale

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Depends on the shot. It is easy to print it darker - if your negative is normally exposed, then you can go up to three stops darker. That should be more than enough to make it . .well . . extremely dark. A bit of blue usually helps the illusion too.

 

But that won't make it night if you have sky in the shot. For a night shot, the light source is artificial, so the sky should be the darkest area, not the brightest. All you can do in a traditional grade is correct the colour and density in the entire frame.

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