That was an interesting work, too bad there was no money for extra, because i saw the video first, then noticed that illusion, weren’t showing any audience, so i quickly went to the description and found the reason. As a viewer, i didnt actually quite feel the full packed audience when i didn’t see them, that might because i am used to the wide shot of the audience’s reaction to the joke when comes to a scene like that. What i would have done is call all the production crew or your friends to fill the room :) maybe might work better.

Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge!

Could you tell us about your education on being a DP? Some of us are just starting and trying to wrap our heads around lighting beyond 3 point.

Thanks

About the Sammy in a white room scene I was curious about your exposure. How much did you blow out the walls? 4-5 stops? It being a viemo clip I was wondering how much texture and detail was captured in the neg and the print. The clip is blown out but I only have to assume that it was shot on film and help information very well. And personally, if the walls were all white that’d be too easy… I like that you had this challenge of raising the value which gave you very different shades of light grey/white in that room.

About the Stage, six cameras huh? Did they all roll at the same time? I was looking to see if your parcans were only used when facing the audience or if it was adding fill to the rest of the stage as well. It’s a great look and the way you describe the lighting process in someone elses comment above really speaks about how not to impede what an actor really has to do (lighting for the area and not the mark). I’m curious how much planning went into getting all that coverage and how much freedom your operators also had with it.

Cheers.

-Sam Kim

Looks awesome! Can’t wait to get out to LA and join you and learn lots from you.

Jose

I’m particularly interested in seeing a post or series of posts that systematically shows the effect of different diffusion and modifiers on a subject or scene. I.e., you can have a grid of images of subject/scene lit by a single light (or light bank) that show a different light modification in each one (scrim, frost white diffusion, gridded, distance of modifier, etc.). That way we could see how the shadows and look of the scene changes. i guess you can use this method for different color modifications, light positioning, and effect of multiple lights.

thanks again!