I've just shot a commercial that took place outdoors in what was supposed to be a garden at early in the morning.
As the main character arrived at 15pm (first nightmare) and we had to shoot 4 different situations we were in a big hurry... as usual the sun did set down before we finished and as I only had two small HMIs I couldn't bring back a natural light to all the set. Nevertheless we did our best but yesterday, on color correction, I found that the face of the main character, who was shot on last place, was so red and unpleasant as a baboon (...) anyway, to prevent that I took care of recording a grey card as many times as I could (not as many as I would have to) but as I arrived to post when the commercials were already edited nobody wanted to lose time searching for the grey cards... we had to correct by eye and I'm not satisfied with the result...
Are there any filters to correct the reddish dominant of the sun setting? I guess that another option I should have taken is to light the main character with an HMI even with the risk of losing naturality... Is it a good idea to try to make the color correction on the set with the color matrix of the digital cameras or is it just a way of getting a worse result (we didn't have well balanced HD screens nor waveform monitors... I guess the producer wanted me to have a nervous breakdown!!!)
Anyway, thanks for the tips on how to shoot on exteriors, they were pretty useful Mr. Mullen!
As the main character arrived at 15pm (first nightmare) and we had to shoot 4 different situations we were in a big hurry... as usual the sun did set down before we finished and as I only had two small HMIs I couldn't bring back a natural light to all the set. Nevertheless we did our best but yesterday, on color correction, I found that the face of the main character, who was shot on last place, was so red and unpleasant as a baboon (...) anyway, to prevent that I took care of recording a grey card as many times as I could (not as many as I would have to) but as I arrived to post when the commercials were already edited nobody wanted to lose time searching for the grey cards... we had to correct by eye and I'm not satisfied with the result...
Are there any filters to correct the reddish dominant of the sun setting? I guess that another option I should have taken is to light the main character with an HMI even with the risk of losing naturality... Is it a good idea to try to make the color correction on the set with the color matrix of the digital cameras or is it just a way of getting a worse result (we didn't have well balanced HD screens nor waveform monitors... I guess the producer wanted me to have a nervous breakdown!!!)
Anyway, thanks for the tips on how to shoot on exteriors, they were pretty useful Mr. Mullen!
