Will you be shooting regular footage or greenscreen? One benefit the sin city guys had was that they were able to light however they wanted, because they were in studio. That being said, you would want a lot of hard edge lighting (around characters’ faces, etc.). Also, I’d shoot in day and make it look like night. It’ll just give you the good contrast that was present in sin city. A better camera would also give you better depth and range of grays when you go to bw in post, which was crucial in being able to achieve that black-and-white-but-still-great-looking. . . look.
Alexander Gao
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