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Dear master Roger how to light a day interior when doors and windows closed. The scene call for two doors and windows closed. Groupe of teen age boys smoking cigar and drinking without their parents know Anything. There is no window source and door way to light the subject. Where to start? May I hung some lights on ceiling. But it’s not logical source when door and windows closed. I am gonna use nano prime lenses and sony fx3 camera. We don’t have enough budgets.
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Do you mean that it has to feel like is daytime? in that case I would choose a wall and call it your blind spot and then create a fake windows from there.
On the other hands if the boys are deliberately smoking in a dark room even tho is daytime you have to treat the scene like a night time. In this case the main source of light can be a practical light or a dim light coming from the closed windows.
I find myself struggling when the scene doesn’t give me much hints about light sources… that is when I have to invent in my head the main source that become my keylight.
Try not to think about the technique but find what it might be lighting the boys in real life instead and try to recreate it. Also practicals can help you solving this process.
If my window have a glass I will get some light from there. Those boys watching tv, and smoking. I would like to play with dim day light. The house is small. I believe there is not much practical lamps in that kind of middle class houses. That’s my worry. We can’t just out the bed kamp or table lamps for all types of houses. In foreign practical lights very common. But here is not like that.
I would choose a window treatment, curtains or blinds, that let me silhouette a figure against them. Also, if a curtain, and it can be bunched up, I have even more control over what is seen. That is the same technique as I used for a night scene in ‘Empire of Light’. Otherwise, for you, its just a TV, which is fine but will not inform an audience as to the time of day.
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