Ryan Elder
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Okay thanks. Perhaps I don’t need to skin tone tracking as it does take time, money and assistants, like you say, but is there anyway I can separate the back ground, from the foreground, color wise? I was told before that the backgrounds in my work can be distracting, especially when shooting in public places, where I don’t have much control.
For example, one time, there was a bright green car in the background, and some test viewers said they found it distracting from the story. Anything I can do in the coloring to separate those things from the foreground, and from the actors, color wise?
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K thanks. The only other method I can think of is rotoscoping, but that will take a lot of work and time going from frame to frame, for every actor for a whole movie though.
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Well the actors skin can change shade when walking into a different part of the lighting pattern, but this should be expected as normal, as a scene is not going to be even lit for every part of the whole scene, otherwise the lighting will look too flat, right?
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I know about the saturation and the hues, just not sure how to get the program to perform tracking the skin color from frame to frame.
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Sorry, it’s 11:15 into the video exactly.
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Oh my, sorry about that! For some reason, the link didn’t copy when I copied it, and I accidentally posted something else from before. Sorry about that. Here is the real link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOWML0CLATc&t=760s
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Actually maybe wide lenses for some action shots are the way to go cause according this:
https://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
On a 35 at f2.8 at night, I can get 10 feet of space that is in focus perhaps. If f2.8 is enough. In this example I posted before, we shot on the Sony A7s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o1G_-zRltQ
Now as you can see there is a lot of noise at night. I read that the A7s is able to see very well at night. However, what aperture do you need to shoot at if shooting under street lights for example, for it still be able to see very well without noise?
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Okay thanks.
It was said before that f11 is way too closed to be shooting at night, but could I get away with f5.6 as long as I get enough lights in there, or is that still too crazy too shot at?
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What about a scene like this shot at night?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_5lMvwfs0U
It’s actually quite dark, and not lit very much accept for around the actor. Could I make something like that work, but with five actors around?
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Okay thanks.
Basically my script is a horror thriller, and I was told by friend’s suggestions that if I could have at least some of it take place at night, that it would be scarier. Mainly the villains want to kill two people who know too much, and a threat to them.
One is at one point during the story, the other is during another point. So that would be two sequences at night, where they would want to kill them in dark places, where witnesses can’t just identify what is going on as easily compared to the day.
If I were to use wide prime lenses. Would a 35mm do, to get more DOF or do I need wider than that?
As for shooting around street lights, there are a few lights in the park, but in order to get there, the person running away from her killers has to get to the light. And that is were the darkness comes in, is that she has to run from her house to the park, to the light, and there is darkness in between. I don’t know have to show the whole running, and can skip ahead, but I still have to show her leaving the house and entering the park for it to make sense.