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How to Pull Off Fake Sunlight Indoors on a Budget

With these techniques, you can take daylight without you almost anywhere. Lighting a scene always comes with its own unique set of challenges, but one circumstance upon which many young filmmakers get tripped up is shooting day-for-night (night scenes during the day) or night-for-day (day scenes during the night). Even though it seems like a lot of complicated, time-consuming work, it's really just a matter of learning some simple lighting techniques. In this tutorial, the team over at Filmora shows you how to fill a dark room with what looks like radiant sunlight using just a few inexpensive pieces of equipment. The sun is the most powerful light source in the natural world for us Earthlings, so when we have to go without it, its absence is greatly felt deep within our gut, namely the part that problem solves based on instinct. How do you make a room look like it has sunlight when there is no sunlight? As a beginner, my gut would've told me to find the darkest, loneliest, most far away hole and hide in it because "I don't have a friggin' clue how to do that." Read More...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 10 July, 2018

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