Hello everyone!
I'm planning on shooting underwater scene for music video for the first time and need advice on reaching certain look I imagine.
Idea is to reduce blue colour tone to a minimum or even make underwater scene look as white as possible to make it stylised, but still maintain natural skin tone of an actor.
Production budget is minimal, so we forced to shoot it in swimming pool (maximum 5 meters deep). Considering that my plan is to light the scene by making huge exposure difference between the top key light and the background, so I can expose for key light and make background look dark. I also understand that I should consider using negative fill to reduce light bouncing from bottom of the pool tiles.
I'm thinking on cranking camera's white balance up to match water tone and then light actor with slightly warmer light to bring back skin tones. Would that work? Is there is something I'm not aware of?
I would be glad to hear advice on this ?
Adding still from a movie "We The Animals" (2018) as a reference of what I imagine. It's just that I'm probably going for brighter picture.
