Colour Filters on Camera and Lights

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DDirector

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I never thought about having two different coloured filters being used at the same time - one on the camera, and the other on the lights.

Basically I learned that whatever colour filter is on the camera (red) will make everything in the scene that colour. And having the opposite colour Cyan (If I am correct that its supposed to be the opposite colour) on the light, it will give the effect of the actors being a normal colour while the BG is red.

I'm not sure if that's 100% correct in what I just said. If not, correct me.
But what I wanted to know is, WHEN would this be used? Is it good to do this? Are there any example clips of this done?

So, in this scene in the forest, could this be pulled off using this method? --
http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKI5gir9d8Rc&v=KI5gir9d8Rc&gl=CA
 
Oh, I wanted to post this in the cinematography section, but I guess lighting works too...

Sorry about link. Its hard to do it on my phone. You may need to copy and paste, and hopefully it works :)
 
i don't know whether that would work. maybe it would but it seems to me that you'd have a hard time getting just the right balance in your colors.

why not put your blue light onto a white card and get a white balance from that? that way you're telling the camera exactly what white is (your source) and everything not under that light will show your skewed color balance. i imagine you might have to go with pretty dense gel color to get a strong effect.

i wasn't able to view your link, so i may not be addressing your question exactly.....
 
I get it. It makes sense. However, what about when your shooting film and cannot white balance like in digital?
So far I've been shooting film. I haven't tried doing that on digital, but it somewhat seems to be right. Not too sure. But the point is having your subjects and foreground objects one colour, and only the background objects/people a different colour.
 
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