Looking for a specific gel The Abyss

[ben goldberg]

So I am Gaffing a feature starting in a few days. The DP and Director have requested a similar blue gel to what was used in The Abyss.

 

Anyone have any idea which blue or combination of colors this may have been?

 

Thanks!

[jeff woods]

I'll have to go watch it again to back up any of this, but I don't think you can just say a gel number and make it work. Was it L200 on a tungsten fixture, or on an HMI? Any filters in front of the lens? Shooiting on daylight or tungsten film?

 

I would also venture that, like a lot of Cameron films, it has every bit as much to do with the lighting as it does with the timing of the film in post.

 

One man's opinion,

-j

 

Jeff Woods

Portland, OR

[David Mullen ASC]

A lot of the blue color is from uncorrected HMI lighting on tungsten film.