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Hi Roger, hi everyone!
First of all, thanks to team Deakins for creating this amazing forum!
I’m trying to better understand the potential of the brushed silk gel that Roger sometimes uses.
He used a brushed silk on the HMI that lights the landscape in the ‘basin at night’ sequence in No Country For Old Men. Was it to focus the horizontal rays to cover a larger area of the landscape while also diffusing the light?
I also noticed Roger used it in the ‘kitchen’ scene in Sicario, on the existing ceiling fixture to light Kate. Why did he choose a brushed silk gel rather than a white diffusion, for example?
If anyone can help me with this, or if Roger could share his insights, I’d be really grateful !
Valentin.
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Brushed silk will stretch the light directly perpendicular to the striations in the gel. I use this effect to widen a source, in effect softening that source, in one direction.
On those HMIs it stretched the light across the landscape without loss of too much light. I was working with very little latitude in that situation.
If a lamp can only be rigged too close to a bounce source it can help, as in that kitchen.
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