Low Light Filming???

[henryspencer]

hello

I'm currently making films using a HVR A1 Sony

now, it doesnt really perform well in low light conditions, but I would still like to create scenes that appear to have been created in low light conditions

does anyone have any tips on how I would go about doing this?? Is this something that I would need to try and create in post production??

I have a feeling that if I was to try and go about doing it afterwards it would look cheap and contrived

anybody got any pearls they would like to share?

thanks in advance

[RydCook]

Hmm...

Only thing I can recommend is Day for Night filter. You shoot in broad day light, and avoid shooting directly at the sun, and of course shadows. Then use the filter to make it look like night time. But that is night... not really low light. Anyway heres the link... free download gives a preview on the site: www.riverrockstudios.com/riverrock/pages/dayfornight.html

For low light.. I'm sure you'll be able to achieve this affect using (if your using Final Cut if not the equivalent of) Colour Correcter, and that new program "Colour" just play around. I'm certain a scene in "Is Anybody There" did this... looked great. In the Basement scene if you've seen it.

Someone else will definitely know more.

[Gareth]

this should help:



give that a blast as well Ryd if you haven't before, amazing results!

[mr.smith]

How much light is low light??....

turn the gain right up, although you will get alot of noise in the image. shoot with the aperture wide open.

[RydCook]

Jun 8, 2009 0:10:22 GMT Gareth said:

this should help:



give that a blast as well Ryd if you haven't before, amazing results!

Mate! that's awesome! Definitely use this on a music video I'm editing at the moment.

[henryspencer]

thank you for all the replies

to answer the question on how much low light; it would be interiors etc. i've tried to turning up exposure but there was just too much noise, as mentioned

i had a friend round the other day who showed me something quite similar to the youtube tutorial. i havent had a proper poke around yet, but i should be able to get the same thing done in adobe

[wiggy]

get hold of magic bullet, it's awesome and has plugins for changing daylight into dusky types

[henryspencer]

thanks again for all your help. All I seem to do is come on here when I've got issues.

Thanks again