Topic: What do you use to film night scenes
i ganna try with blue paper, all i have right now
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i ganna try with blue paper, all i have right now
Turn down your camera settings and turn off a light or two (leave at least one lamp on). I don't think the blue color gives an effective night look.
Go in your camera settings and turn down the brightness that will make it look darker.
I'm not sure that a blue sheet of paper will make it look convincing. give it a try though
I've heard you can tilt a computer screen or something towards your animation. that will give it a bluish light.
well i was messing with it and i turned down the manual settings one notch and it made it look like a blueish night scene
I say film regularly, then in post production, tone down the darkness, and add some tint effects. That's what I'm doing for my newest film in the making. It comes out quite cool, but perhaps as other people are saying, tilt your computer screen down. Test a few different strategies.
Last edited by Mason (October 1, 2011 (01:57pm))
in Effectslab pro i have a day for night filter
Personally I have a black poster-board that I put up, and I use a blue light bulb to light the scene. Along with that, messing around with the camera settings (or messing around in post-production, personally I prefer filming what I want it to look like at the end instead of spending a long time editing, but to each his own. ANYWAYS) so that it doesn't look too dark or too hard to see. It really also depends on the mood of the film, and what's taking place at night, but the blue paper over the light seems like a decent idea. The best way to get what you want, however, is to play around with different techniques and styles and whatnot, and see which one you like the most for what you're filming. Creativity is a must when brickfilming!
What I use black paper and a blue light. Have the black paper for the backdrop and the blue light for the moos light. I have the blue light sort of hitting the paper(it make it look awesome if you ask me). That's my setup for my night shots.
hmm theres blue light bulbs at my walmart, near my house should i get light blue or dark?
I placed my lamps slightly further away from the set, turned up the conrast and set the white balance to yellowish. It looked awesome! 
Turn down your camera settings and turn off a light or two (leave at least one lamp on). I don't think the blue color gives an effective night look.
WRONG.
It does. I have used it. That wasn't the darkest, though.
Set the gain to 0 and if you have the expoure to max, take it one click down. That should get a pretty sweet effect.
my scene would mostly be in the house with no lights, so still work yea?
Film them as you would normal scenes, but put a solid dark blue layer with diminished opacity on top later (in an editing program).
thanks
If i film at day, i just get a blue sheet of paper,turn off all the lights,and cover up the windows.
I have tried it before,but i didn't like the animation.
i have no windows in my room, my walls are concrete 
its very very dark
The best method is to simply add a blue tint. Or in color correction select a blue shade.
i have two tests i put up in the tests forum
Either use a blacklight or turn the brightness settings on your camera down. Hopw this helps!
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