Day to Night Conversion

As you all know this is a near zero budget film project coming from the hands of three adolescent kids. As a result equipment is our largest physical obstacle. Of course with experience, a great film can come about with little equipment but at least experience is free.

We at first planned to purchase some can lights and bulbs to light our set but Brian has some crude outdoors lights that will suffice. However, I am studying up on day to night editing in order to compensate for our lighting issues. By recording in the daylight, the footage quality will be very high, as I would not need to compromise grain for exposure. If I am able to avoid the pitfalls like lens flare, catching reflections, and the such I'll be able to retain a lot of detail so that I have more to work with in the editing process and end up with nicer quality. Of course there will be scene in which I have to record at night like on the streets (as we'll have to see the cars' headlights) or at the "Boomer's scene" where I'll need the lights form the ferris wheel to be on.  I'll be able to work on color correction a lot with this. Of course I'll be working on this in tandem with Patrick who is the designated editor. 

This is a very useful video tutorial that teaches us not only to change it day to night but also add certain realistic touch ups like the headlights to a car.