Color Temp.

[4knewave]

Shooting a music video on digital and ran into some possible problems while scouting a location today. The narrative part of the video takes place in a diner. The diner has a huge bay of windows and also a bunch of practical ceiling lamps. I was thinking of the best way to approach the situation and thought to set my camera to 5400k white balance and go tug., day, tug, day with my bulbs in my kino 4x4. I was thinking letting the practicals (we don't see many in shot except for one part that takes place at a counter) go orange (may look cool) and being that my kino and windows will dominate, the orange bulbs and practicals will add some warm fill here and their.

Can I run into a problem of things going way too orange specifically the face? I don't know if maybe a better approach is to go tug. on my kino white balance for 3200k and let the outside windows go blue. Though I like the warmth better and want the outside to be blown out white.

Thanks

 

[David Mullen ASC]

Just depends on what balance you decide is "white" (5500K, 3200K, or inbetween, etc.) and how much color saturation you want. If you decide to white balance for an inbetween color temp, like from the half-corrected Kinos, then tungsten would only read as half-orange, the daylight only half-blue. Then a face lit with that inbetween color temp would be "white" and then go warm under the tungsten. If the colors aren't too pumped up in chroma level, then the mix will not be too garish.

May look interesting. You're shooting digital so you'll be able to see if you like it when you set it up. Sometimes I find that a really bright window that is uncorrected and blue doesn't look interesting, it just looks washed out. You may want to find some way of controlling how bright the window is IF you want to see that mix of colors.