Alper Kasap

Director wants a really moody look and feel ... Interior day But the location we have has 5 massive open windows , no sheers or curtains Its a wide shot like the location picture - but Actor will be sitting on table in fromt of windows on laptop Exposing for the outside obviously makes the actor silhouetted and the room quiet dark Just wondering what ideas you guys may have for such a location... would you bounce Say a hmi from fill side , or throw in more light from the outside in ? Reframe so we dont see all the windows , that way could black some out ?

Thanks Miguel some nice ideas i might play around with those suggestions.. David interested to hear your opinion, they talk for a bit its a depressive isolated cold feeling, the boy leaves the room the door remains open, a scary figure (like the emperor from star wars ) enters through the door and the darkness of the hallway creeps up behind the father and we do a slow push in where we end up on a close up of his plate and blood appears as his head drops in his plate.. Its night interior.

there is one shot which im finding tricky to draw my lights diagrams to. Here is the storyboard, as you can see no windows in the background just white walls and a closed door. ( a character walks through it later in the scene ) there are windows on camera left ( lounge room ) and camera right ( kitchen ) the directors wants a cool , isolated , eerie feel, its a sad and depressive moment.. its a horror film. i know its subjective but wondering how someone else would approach it ? i could punch a hmi thru windows to give moonlight/daylight ambience and a tungsten lamp behind them.. never tried a practical with daylight bulb is this another option but then would need another motivated tungsten source. Is color contrast always necessary what are peoples opinions ? i have 1.2k hmi 4 bank kino flos 650w tugnsten arri 2 x 150w dedos

I have a short film next week with two tricky lighting setups required. I have mainly shot music videos within studios so im a bit rusty with some of these scenes. NIGHT INTERIOR - A small bedroom, one squarish window with transparent white curtains. Three kids lie a sleep. Its 4am and one of the girls wake up to the murmur of noise coming from their parents room. I don' t have any HMI, my strongest light is a blondie, i have a 650w, kino flos, arri open face 750, 2 redheads and 2 x 150W dedos... How do you get that affect where all the curtains seem to be an even soft blueish/moonlight colour ? I was thinking if keeping the kid as a silhouette so we shoot wide from outside the bedroom and see her waking up to this blueish window background. Similar to this picture with piano man and windows... But then i would punch in for a close up so if i add a bit if soft fill from the front would that work for continuity ? Im thinking a blondie straight through the window with blue moonlight gel. Also if i wanted to change to a streetlight I don't have sodium vapor gel what gel can i use on my tungsten lights to imitate street light ? DAY INTERIOR - Small kitchen transparent whitish curtains , its 8am kids its a chaotic house as kids are eating breakfast and rushing for school. Just want to punch some light through the window, i have a hazer as well .... similar to this picture ( kitchen picture man with kid ) what light gel/diff do you recommend ? hazer in the room as well.