Turning day into night...?

[Keviano]

Does anyone know of any way of shooting in daylight and filtering the camera to make it look like it's night time? The film's being shot on MiniDV, if that makes a difference. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Keviano
ReelRaine Productions

[eddie]

blue filters over the lens, or under expose, or tweak it all in post production on your computer (turn down the brightness, put in a bit of blue untill it looks right).

Personally I think blue filters for night time are really obvious on video. You can always tell that its not really night.

Make sure street lights, car headlights, window lights, room lights etc are all on as they would be at night, helps with the illusion.
If possible try and arrange for the lighting to at least appear to come from these sources (there is a technical name for this, forget what it is).
I shot some stuff on a bright sunny day, that was supposed to be nighttime, I bluescreened the blue sky and replaced it with a black starry sky, I took down the brightness, and generally tweaked it. Overlaid an image of the moon over the sun. It looks OK. (but it is black and white)

That was on Video. next project is on film and I intend to under expose by a couple of stops, and have the actors carrying torches or burning flares.

Apparently butch cassidy and the sundance kid used day for night in one lynch scene: All the actors were carrying sunlamps which were pointed directly at the camera. they underexposed by 2 stops and it apparently looks perfect.

[marti-c]

Nearly right eddie

Night for day is done by White balancing for tungsten 3200kelvin and then taking the camera out into the daylight. Then close down the iris(keep a porch light on for added effect) Just watch you dont get any sun reflections off the windows or doors.

marti

[miker]

http://speed.seas.upenn.edu/~ethang/day_for_night.htm

;-)