File puptcrit/puptcrit.0609, message 206


From: =?Windows-1252?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-magma.ca>
To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:38:22 -0400
Subject: [Puptcrit] Is glossy that bad on film???


Hi all. 

The puppet movie's director has just told me that my puppets are too glossy for the film, according to the light technician.

Can you help me with some knowledge, to try to understand, or make them understand, if they are wrong???


IT is hard to believe that my puppets are too glossy, since more matte than they are, they would be equivalent to plaster of paris in powder form! I am so proud of the matteness I achieved recently!
They say they are even more glossy then human skin, while I see clearly that they are about the same as an unglazed terra-cotta flower pot!


Which leads me to three possible explanations for now:
1) either the lighting guy is a total amateur (which wouldn't surprise me one bit, considering the budget we have left)

2)or he uses standard "safe" rules and never tries anything to adjust. Which I am inclined to believe, since the only way to make them look glossy is to BLAST god-powered light onto them directly.


I'm really worried about this, since we built our sets with gloomyness and darkness in mnind, and already I see three HUGE spots at a thousand watts each.
The set deisnger and I are having a great time taking pictures of our work with only the small 15 watt lights we have installed inside the set. If it works for digital photogrpahy, why not for digital film in HD?


Is it possible that digital film in high definition really needs that much light to truly film at the right intensity?
Can post-production steps really make a bleached bright image look like nightime?

Thanks for any pointers!



Mathieu René Créaturiste
Marionnettes, Masques, Etcetera...
Puppets, Masks, Etcetera...
www.creaturiste.com
creaturiste-AT-magma.ca
(514) 274-8027
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