Ok so i have asked a question before on how to make a movie shot during day look like it was shot during night in Night Vision. Now If i get a green lens cover or mess with the settings manually in my camcorder. And once i shoot my movie. I know there will be shadows and i dont want there to be a lot of shadows. That im guessing would give it away that it was shot during night. So how would i get rid of the shadows. Can i use editing software in preproduction and get rid of them that way.
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If you’re shooting indoors, could you possible block any windows so no natural light comes into the scene? That way, you can light the scene yourself, removing any shadows with fill lights.
Why do you need a green filter on the lens? You could add this in post. This would be my preference, as it would give you perfect footage to mess with yourself. I’d be worried that a filter would degrade the image quality. It’ll also be more difficult to add any visual effects to a green image. Add them to a coloured image, then tint the whole thing green.
One other thing to think about, that could give away that you’re not really shooting in night-vision, is the “cats-eye” effect (that’s what I call it, not sure if there’s a technical term…). If you look at night-vision shots, you can often see the human retina, just like a cat’s eye. That’s because (I believe) Infra-Red light, used to shoot night-vision, passes through the eye and isn’t absorbed like other frequencies of light, so it reflect back out. A quick Google search should tell you more. I guess most people (including myself, now that I think about it) would probably look past this though, probably wouldn’t even notice…
Why do you need a green filter on the lens? You could add this in post. This would be my preference, as it would give you perfect footage to mess with yourself. I’d be worried that a filter would degrade the image quality. It’ll also be more difficult to add any visual effects to a green image. Add them to a coloured image, then tint the whole thing green.
One other thing to think about, that could give away that you’re not really shooting in night-vision, is the “cats-eye” effect (that’s what I call it, not sure if there’s a technical term…). If you look at night-vision shots, you can often see the human retina, just like a cat’s eye. That’s because (I believe) Infra-Red light, used to shoot night-vision, passes through the eye and isn’t absorbed like other frequencies of light, so it reflect back out. A quick Google search should tell you more. I guess most people (including myself, now that I think about it) would probably look past this though, probably wouldn’t even notice…
Well i have another quesiton for everyone. I will be shooting the movie in a big house. And i want the movie to be shot in IR night vision. But that just will not work. So i want to shoot during day in the house. But in post production i want to add the green or night vision effects to it. How would i make my own light. If i block the windows. And block most of the natural light out. How do i light the scenes and m movie up myself. With out any shadows. That may give the night vision effects away.
There are most definitely shadows while using infrared night-vision specs, in fact in even the slightest moon light, it looks just like day light with a green cast, and overt glow around any light source, and a very small amount of a fish-eye aperture appearance (at least in my scope...)