creating daylight

[wahrez]

hello

I'm shooting a short film soon and we'll be having to shoot a scene after dusk that should be daylight. Its in a hospital room (ground floor) and I need to create the feeling that there is still daylight outside.

What sort of setup do you recommend? what type of lights and gels etc?

Thanks

 

[filmat11]

After Dusk...right, not Dawn ?
Color temp should not be an issue, unless you look out the windows, and can see the last remnants of daylight.
Depending on your stories"Time of day" requirements, hard or soft light could be used based on story line,equipment you have, the look you want, the mood, power requirements, location size limitations, color temp that you want...warm and moody or blue-coldish and clinical-gels .ect.

 

[J.R. Hudson]

Using HMI's to blast light in the window is the best solution but where you'll run into trouble is if actually looking out the window. If it is dark outside, it's dark.

Something tells me your budget isn't allowing for the gnarly setup of 20K's and Skypans.

However, an option would be to draw the blinds or curtains and pump some HMI's in that way; giving the illusion of sunlight spilling in without actually seeing the exterior ?

 

[SeanEmer]

For the shots where we can't see the window, just pump in some bright lights (don't forget to white balance correctly). If you need to look out the window, you could try putting a green screen outside and shooting some daylight plates to stick in there with a touch of motion tracking (if its a moving shot).

 

[Huy Vu]

One trick that I use is to take a 1K fresnel, gel it with CTB and then adjust the barndoor to allow shafts of 3200K light to leak through. Point the fresnel up until the wall until the shafts of light are falling on it, creating the illusion of sunlight streaming in to the wall.

In the still below it was like 6 or 7 pm and pretty much dark out, but looks quite a bit like dusk.

 

[FBAS]

@jade8472, looks nice, except for the blue light on the ceiling (unless you wanted blue light on the ceiling!)

 

[Avenger007]

Why did you gel a light only to use the spill off the barndoors. Why not just shape the light with flags/barndoor and diffuse as necessary. I think that spilled blue on the ceiling looks undesirable. Its like two different times of the day occuring.

 

[Huy Vu]

Why did you gel a light only to use the spill off the barndoors. Why not just shape the light with flags/barndoor and diffuse as necessary. I think that spilled blue on the ceiling looks undesirable. Its like two different times of the day occuring.

That's true, I wasn't too happy about it when we shot either. At that moment though I only had some CTB on hand with no diffusion gel. I'll have to order some.