Snapper123
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Hey guy's, I have another curiosity. Now, I always love the lighting direction in Harmony Korine's films to death, because they both are amazingly beautiful, quite conventional and extremely realistic looking, and yet also don't have any sort of conventional lighting set up that would confuse the crap out of a budget filmmaker. A great example is this basement scene, a few seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij0YgYAofHk
How in the world was it done? I've paid attention to every single angle and not once does any tiny amount of light change on any part of the boy's body or the mom's hair, and in no part of this scene is there a conventional lighting set-up ; if there was, we'd see it in the mirror. My guess is that there was simply a big flood light or so illuminating the basement in the corner, where the majority of the camera work was done, or that there was a very strong series of light panels on the ceiling, some of which can be seen.
But yeah, this is what Harmony Korine does for almost every scene he's ever filmed, he always uses film, he always incorperates 14 mirrors, 14 windows, 14 lamps, and always uses wide angles that cover the entire spectrum of the room. I personally think it's magical and most all of his films are some of the very few that strike me as always perfectly lit, and the reality is I think that at most, he simply lights a scene using industrial sources built into the location as though he was lighting a room to live in himself (which to me, fits a film I'm doing soon), or he simply uses mirrors and windows to a huge aesthetic advantage, and sets up his scripts to reflect this.
More examples of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q9CJarf3iA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AHASwfKCp8
I mean, I've talked about it before, but even after more education on my part, I simply have to say that these scenes just are not unnaturally lit. Especially the "stawberry scene", I've talked about that before on here and I know for a fact that that scene was not lit unnaturally beyond what may indeed be a reflector, I've recreated scenes in my house that have turned out just as beautiful as this and with the exact same aesthetic, it's just not impossible.
So big question in my head - why aren't films filmed like this? And if HK's scenes are not shot naturally, then, with paying attention to how he always shoots scenes incorperating real locations, wide angles, many angles, huge mirrors, ect ect, then how are they done?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij0YgYAofHk
How in the world was it done? I've paid attention to every single angle and not once does any tiny amount of light change on any part of the boy's body or the mom's hair, and in no part of this scene is there a conventional lighting set-up ; if there was, we'd see it in the mirror. My guess is that there was simply a big flood light or so illuminating the basement in the corner, where the majority of the camera work was done, or that there was a very strong series of light panels on the ceiling, some of which can be seen.
But yeah, this is what Harmony Korine does for almost every scene he's ever filmed, he always uses film, he always incorperates 14 mirrors, 14 windows, 14 lamps, and always uses wide angles that cover the entire spectrum of the room. I personally think it's magical and most all of his films are some of the very few that strike me as always perfectly lit, and the reality is I think that at most, he simply lights a scene using industrial sources built into the location as though he was lighting a room to live in himself (which to me, fits a film I'm doing soon), or he simply uses mirrors and windows to a huge aesthetic advantage, and sets up his scripts to reflect this.
More examples of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q9CJarf3iA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AHASwfKCp8
I mean, I've talked about it before, but even after more education on my part, I simply have to say that these scenes just are not unnaturally lit. Especially the "stawberry scene", I've talked about that before on here and I know for a fact that that scene was not lit unnaturally beyond what may indeed be a reflector, I've recreated scenes in my house that have turned out just as beautiful as this and with the exact same aesthetic, it's just not impossible.
So big question in my head - why aren't films filmed like this? And if HK's scenes are not shot naturally, then, with paying attention to how he always shoots scenes incorperating real locations, wide angles, many angles, huge mirrors, ect ect, then how are they done?
