Comments on: If movies are based on a series of photo frames moving rapidly, how come you can shoot movies at night?

By: perki88

perki88 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:19:04 +0000

I’ve been on the set of a TV show shot at night and you’d be amazed at how many bright lights they actually use!

By: Will Foster

Will Foster — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:55:32 +0000

Well, they are very similar actually, the video camera with low light actually slows down when trying to collect light when shooting with low-light. Most of the time, video cameras… same as a still camera… post editing can manipulate the image to appear as if it was shot at night…

By: TG

TG — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:36:07 +0000

Movie cameras are very different from your personal camera. Some can film in very low light, and scenes are always very carefully lit to give the director exactly the exposure they want. It takes no longer to film at night than during the day, but lighting has to be carefully done. If youylook at some old films, it’s obvious that the night scenes were shot during the day through filters, as the cameras then had just the problem you refer to.