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Bluescreening a night time scene
I have a shot I am about to try and pull off in which a lady laying on her bed becomes weightless and floats about the mattress.
The storyboards dictate that this is a night time scene in a bedroom with a window behind with only moonlight lighting the scene.
By nature the only bluescreen shots I have ever worked on were brightly lit shots, in order to get the backdrop to key out.
Does anyone have any tips for how I would pull off this shot without ending up with a composite in which the lighting for the lady looks completely different to the lighting in the bedroom plate over which I will be compositing?
Thanks
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I had a similar experience where using levels to adjust the foreground being keyed worked well, then I added additional scene layers such as light rays coming in, and added a few more shadows that helped.
Todd Morgan
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Yeah that reminds me of a project I did last year. Instead of applying the Curves and Levels effects I simply duplicated my keyed subject then, with the duplicated layer, played with the blending modes to make it more darker. This may be helpful if you’re shooting with DV and you don’t want to “dammage” the pixels. The final result was amazingly realistic.
Anyway, if this doesn’t work, Levels and Curves are your friends.
Justin Productions
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You do need the lighting, camera position, lens any camera movement etc to match.
As long as you have decent separation between foreground and background you should be good to go – light background separately.
With a woman lying down, how are you going to separate her from the backing? My guess is that she will be lying on a large transparent screen of some kind, or supported on a thinner-than-she-is central beam, or on a thin plank hung from wires, so that you can drop the bluescreen well away from her ..
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Also remember that you can color correct later – adding an adjustment layer over the entire shot with some colorizing effects. You’d be surprised how much more cohesive things look after color correcting everything together.
You will need to use the same color correcting on every other shot in the same scene so it doesn’t look out of place – but if you’re doing a moody piece (and I’d qualify a levitation at night as moody) you would *probably* be doing this anyway.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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I would also explore the idea of just minimizing what part of the floating rig you see and clone the rest out. No composite.
Chris Smith
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