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Robbie Comeau

Robbie Comeau

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Hey guys,

I have a story that takes place mostly at night. One scene is in the day time.

I'm figuring out, to save money, If I want to shoot this film in one day, or two.

The problem is:

I can shoot the outside scene early at 11 in the morning. Then wait 9 hours (8 oclock)
and shoot the rest for the night time (inside and outside).....

Now, that's a long break, so would the cast/crew feel comfortable with that?

The shots/scenes are inside and outside. I was thinking for the inside, to speed up the shoot, is to cover the windows with a blanket or something to
make it look like it's dark in the room....This way, we could shoot the outside scene at 11, then at 1 we can head over and do the inside scenes......THEN wait till it's dark and do the outside scenes.

Or should I really be making this a two day shoot? I'd just rather one since I;m using my own money and would rather pay the DP/sound guy once..

I'm sorry if this is confusing.

Or, I can cheat the inside scene with the DP, try and keep away from the windows, and I'll let him use his magic to light the scene?

Thanks,

Robbie
 
Do a night time shoot. 10pm-8am. Shoot all your night time from 10pm-5am, then prepare for your daylight stuff as the light gets nice and beautiful.

It depends if people are working for free or not. If they're getting paid, I would say this option that I'm suggesting would be best. If they're not getting paid, the large break would be best. Either option really sucks, but at least with the large break you aren't doing an all nighter.

Is the daylight scene inside or outside? Because if it's inside, just cover the windows with tracing paper, throw some lights at them and you've got yourself daylight. Then you can do a little bit more sane hours and do like 5pm - 3am.

Really though, talk to your DP. He should be able to solve a lot of your problems. That's what he's there for after all.
 
The inside shots in the room are night. So I can easily cover up the windows and get my DP to light it well..

The lead is an 8 year old, not sure if he'd/his mother be ok with that late shoot, school and what not.

They're working for free.

I guess I'll just talk to the DP and see what he says in terms of the lighting situation.

Robbie
 
filmman said:
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It sounds like you should go for this, or shoot over two days.

Definitely talk with your DP and see what he can come up with though. As soon as you go inside, you can make it into daytime, or night time at whatever time you like. It's just outdoors that becomes a bit more difficult.
 
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