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I just found this music video:

https://vimeo.com/131735828

and especially the scenes in the bar are really amazing for me.

Can someone tell me how to make this foggy/diffuse environment? is it just a fogger which gets activated some minutes before the camera starts?

And do you think there is only direct light in the video, without any softboxes?
 
That would be done with a hazer like the DF-50. Your typical party fog machine is going to put out big billowy clouds of smoke. You can get the job done with those but you'll need a couple buddies to waft the fog around until it distributes evenly. Annoying to have to do before every take.

Definitely multiple front sources in this.

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In this shot you can see a hard-edged key light (diffused slightly by the haze) coming from camera left, on the far side (away from camera) of Tyrese's face.

Also coming from almost the same location is a dim source. It is slightly cooler in color temperature than the key light. It's so dim it's hard to really tell if it was diliberately softened or it just got naturally diffused by the haze. Anyway, you can see how it illuminates his cheek on the front side (camera side) of his face. They managed to catch his eye while leaving his nose and side of his head in shadow. This tells you it's coming from almost the same location as the key. If it was rotated around toward the camera side, it would start to illuminate his nose.

Lastly, there's a backlight which seems to be quite similar to the key light, maybe a bit dimmer.

The musicians in the background are taking a single source, from the same location as Tyrese's key. The woman at the table seems to have a dim, soft overhead source which is cool in temperature like Tyrese's fill light. She also has a slight backlight which might just be spill from the stage lights, or a diliberately placed light, I can't tell.

Edit:

This is interesting. Check out this shot from later in the video:
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Suddenly, soft warm fill light from below and camera right. That microphone just POPS now. Also now looking at the microphone you can see a soft source from camera left, lower than the microphone that is present in both shots. I seem to have misjudged the location of that fill. It's also probably not blue. Seems to be the grade which is causing blue shadows/yellow highlights. There's also a highlight on the very top of the mic, the location of which leads me to believe that's not his backlight. That seems to be the rim-light on his hair. Lots of soft fill. The key and back lights must be quite bright with all this fill and getting such a low-key look.

I'm downloading the original upload file now. Maybe I can see into those shadows better.
 
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so there seems no flooding at all, right? only direct light on the people
I left the people of the background out and tried to make a sketch:


is this how I could do it?
Sadly I have only cheap LED lights but at least I could try to get a similar effect
 

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HAZERS not smoke/fog machines give this look.
I've done it with regular cheap smoke machines but you have to have people fanning the smoke around and the good haze effect only last for a few minutes. PITA.

Haze machines are a lot more expensive, but I think it's worth the investment - heck, about the price of a Metabones speedbooster.

Renting a full-on DF-50 is probably the best idea if you're not doing this often, but here are a few cheap ones:

http://www.rosco.com/fog/vHazer.cfm
http://www.amazon.com/American-DJ-Haze-Generator/dp/B0002EOIR0
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PRO-HAZE-MA...ONCERT-THEATRE-PLAY-WATER-BASED-/181298553966
http://www.pssl.com/Haze-Machines/Eliminator-Faze-Stream-700-Water-Based-Hazer
 
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