From: JEFFREY PAULL (email suppressed)
Date: Thu May 28 2009 - 12:51:34 PDT
Always (except for specific non-literal-colour effects) use a white card.
The idea is the white shade has no colour in itself, so the camera circuits "read" the white through the lens
and adjust themselves so white is recorded without colour tints.
So if fluorescent lights have exess green (camera film and sensors see it but our eyes don't) the camera circuits
lower the green sensitivity in proportion to the excess in he fluorescent illumination.
If you have daylight coming in a window, that will be a different tint from the fluorescents.
Probably the best is to hold the white card so it catches light both from the window and the overhead lights.
UNLESS:
Where the mother is is illuminated primarily by one or the other.
Assuming she's most important, do your white balance from where she will be/is.
Another good reason to go to the location before B-Day and praqctice.
You will be lots calmer for the real thing if everything isn't new to you.
(There will be plenty that IS new, so don't overload on novelty.)
One more: Perhaps some shots out the window, or, if at home, from the street of the outside of the house,
or if an apt. start with a ELS and slowly zoom in to the window of their apt.
Maybe a day before or after, get some shots of the world continuing around all this.
Doesn't matter you actually shot this earlier or later, if you decided to cut some on this in,
you would be after dramatic scope.
JP
On Thu 28/05/09 14:48 , Matt Helme email suppressed sent:
> What is the best way to white balance under florescent light? Will a
> white card do or should i use a dark or light blue?I have never taped
> under that circumstance.
> Matt
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> FROM: Jodie Jacobson
> TO: email suppressed
> SENT: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:57:22 PM
> SUBJECT: Re: Filmming a Birth
>
> I'd imagine (as a woman who is one week away from her due date) that
> 'extremely flexible' means operating at the wishes of the expecting
> parents, especially the mother who might want to have you out of her
> sight line and potentially to stop filming. Or, they might want as
> much detail as possible, to direct specifically. I think the message
> is to remain open and not tied to any outcome as birth can be full of
> unexpected surprises.
> Jodie Vicenta Jacobson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Experimental Film Discussion List on behalf of Matt Helme
> Sent: Thu 5/28/2009 1:28 PM
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> Subject: Re: Filmming a Birth
> What does "extremely flexible" mean?
> Matt
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> From: Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
> To: email suppressed
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:08:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Filmming a Birth
>
> be extremely flexible, and discuss with the parents beforehand what
> they are comfortable with. make sure you have plenty of extra battery
> packs, as this could take a lot longer than you expect and it would
> not be advisable to run electrical cords in the room. if you are
> filming in a hospital, get all necessary clearance ahead of time.
> good luck, what an honor.
> enjoy today...
>
> Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez
> Film/Video Artist and Freelance Writer
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> On May 28, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Matt Helme wrote:
>
> Hello all:
> I may be Filming a Birth and i need advice.
>
> Thanks
> Matt
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