Scene Setting and Gels

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Dyrseve989

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Ok, I figured instead of making two threads I will ask both questions in this one

Question #1
- I have to film in a grocery store, the usual flourescent lights in a large crappy, bland style grocery store. Id like to know what cine settings to use for 24pa filming, right now I usually set it at Cine-Like-V, with it at Thin, and suggestions please

Question #2
- I am filming an sequence in one room with a large window in NYC that lets in alot of sun, the setting calls for the sun to be setting into the room, but I may need additional lighting, what color temp is the sun considered? and what gels can I use(and where can I get them) for my normal work flood lights?

Thanks for the input

-Matt-
 
1: Set your lights to the same temperature as the flouros with help of CTB and minusgreen gel and take the green tint in post. Or use cheap flouros as your lights and take the green tint in post. Or change the flouros with Rented kinoflo tubes. Or turn the lights off and use your lights.

2: Sunsets can be anything from 1/4 CTO to Full CTO. It is you to determine how orange you want it to be. Sometimes sunsets are blue (in high stylized and filtered videos, for example)...

you can always test...
 
Dyrseve989 said:
Question #1
- I have to film in a grocery store, the usual flourescent lights in a large crappy, bland style grocery store. Id like to know what cine settings to use for 24pa filming, right now I usually set it at Cine-Like-V, with it at Thin, and suggestions please
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Color Temp is really the only thing that is gonna hit you on this one. Either do a White Balance under the existing lighting or use a PRST (which will give you more stylized imagery; different colorcast's that can be manipulated in post)

Question #2
- I am filming an sequence in one room with a large window in NYC that lets in alot of sun, the setting calls for the sun to be setting into the room, but I may need additional lighting, what color temp is the sun considered? and what gels can I use(and where can I get them) for my normal work flood lights?
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Using a PRST of 5600K is usually ideal for Daylight Balance but as mentioned can vary from Dawn to Dusk and using Gels and/or varying WB settings can have your look from Cool Blue to Orange Sunset.

When in doubt always do a Manual White Balance each time the lighting conditons change to be on the safe side.

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If shooting under fluorescents, and you notice a green spike or green tint to your footage, try the FLUO matrix, it tries to compensate a little for the green spike.
 
Did a video shoot yesterday and white balanced like 20 times! Got annoying but I knew I had to do it for the right look.
 
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