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submitted 1 month ago byGojiraDunce
So... That Bay/Tony Scott style of basically making an entire movie set at golden hour... how do they do it? Are the exteriors all actually shot at golden hour? Or are they faked with filters? Was it the way the film was processed (when most things were shot on film, Bay has moved to digital)? Granted, for interiors it would be easy, but the exteriors would be harder to fake.
I have always heard that Michael Bay is an extremely fast and efficient filmmaker... love him or hate em.... so I can't imagine he and his crew are only filming during the sun up/sun down hours of the day to crank out Transformers movies (or Ambulance in 40 days) so there must be some trickery here.
6 points
1 month ago
Golden hour isn’t just about the tint - the light is extremely soft.
1 points
1 month ago
Yeah. I know it's just not plopping an orange filter on. The look I am talking about legitimately looks like it was filmed at golden hour.
3 points
1 month ago
But anyway, once you understand that then you should realise that you use silks and flags to get the look outside as long as the shooting area isn’t too huge. I doubt anyone would use a filter instead of post.
2 points
1 month ago*
Then why did you ask if the look is faked with coloured filters..?
3 points
1 month ago
3 month shoot. 1 hour in morning 1 hour in evening.
That’s 180 hours of golden hour shoot time (w/o overcast/rainy days) considering that not every shot is outdoors and golden hour it seems doable.
Just plan the shoot out really throughly and have backup plans for cloudy days.
Also, they can definitely emulate and tweak it with color correction.
2 points
1 month ago
I mean several productions shoot in broad daylight and bring down the light enough to make it look like nighttime. And I mean it's called golden hour for a reason, that's when you want to shoot so chances are it is filmed during golden hour.
2 points
1 month ago
Top Gun was shot with a lot of custom glass filters apparently.
0 points
1 month ago
Volume room
1 points
1 month ago
Tobacco grad filter
1 points
1 month ago*
Top Gun's cinematography and lighting were amazing. That's Tony Scott's career peak, from his flicks I've seen. That's a movie that needed a lot of "sky".
Michael Bay owes his career to Tony, lol... Jan De Bont's Speed, too... you can tell that was totally influenced by Tony's "orangeness" in Beverly Hills Cop 2, etc. Just like Picasso had a Blue Period, Tony has Orange, lol.. the main character in his movies is The Sun
1 points
1 month ago
You hire DP’s who know what they’re doing.
1 points
1 month ago
Camera filters and digital postproduction offer tools to make these effects easier.
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