Movie Lighting Setups - Cinematography Breakdown
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I have the opportunity to shoot on Panavision C-Series Anamorphics for a music video I DPed last year. As we were packing up into our cars after our prep, one of the Panavision techs casually mentioned two of the lenses we had was on Inglorious Bastards and one of the Transformers movies. It felt like we were holding something that should be in a museum instead of going into the back of our cars haha
Haha so good! Great story👌
Nice!
Few things get me as hyped as a Lewis Potts breakdown. Can listen to you for hours dude!!!!
Thanks Sean!🙏
Agreed! 🤙
Agreed
More breakdowns like this, please! Would also love to see some breakdowns of Deakins lightsetup in 1917, since the camera is in a constant moving "one-take". Great job, Lewis!
I know this is late but he said in his podcast that the lighting for 1917 was almost all natural light. They would shoot on overcast days for continuity. For some indoor scenes they had oil lamps with powerful bulbs in them. In night exteriors they used massive light rigs to simulate the fire in the scene.
Please Sir, can you just encourage me of the any cheaper light I can use to have a cinematic shoots with.
You are amazing. I learned a lot watching this. Thank you so much.
These are great man. Really interesting talking about lighting and blocking for whole scenes instead of individual shots. Super helpful!
Awesome tutorial. Can you please explain why movie sets are so much brighter than what is seen on the final cut? And are lighting ratios generally the same between what they were during filming, and what they are after coloring? Many thanks.
I hate hate hate hate hate these super-perfect lighting setups. This isn't how the world looks. And there's no creativity there either. It ultimately just all ends up looking flat and boring, and sometimes even weird. Like this odd uncanny valley where it's not real-life but it's also not creatively stylized either. Just flat, weird, scenes that are impossible to invest in because they hold the audience at a distance, while their brains try to subconsciously figure out exactly why what they're seeing isn't quite 'right'.
And this is on top of the already bizarre obsession with ultra-high resolution outputs which just add to the hyperrealism disconnect. Nobody in the history of filmmaking has ever complained about the pixel count of a movie. Yet we're in an arms race to cram as much visual information onto the screen as possible, with no regard to the way audiences actually process visual images in the context of a movie. Again, these ultra-perfect images only serve to hold the audience at a distance.
And then Hollywood wonders why nobody is paying attention to their products anymore? All the art has disappeared, and now it's just robotic technical perfection. No matter how good your story may be -- and the quality of the stories has plummeted too -- if the visuals don't engage the audience on some level, they're not going to care.
Look at a mid-tier film from the 80s or 90s and I guarantee that no matter how mediocre the storyline was, it will look far more visually engaging than whatever big-money garbage is being churned out today.
There are exceptions of course; interesting work is still being done if you look for it. But there's a reason Hollywood is in the toilet, and this is a big part of it.
Random request & hoping you see it. Would love to see if you can do one of the HBO series Euphoria.
I think it would be a great idea. I love their use of lighting
Yeah man hopefully, I think it's a great looking show too
Very useful videos! We need lighting setups of green knight please
I'd pay for this content (please don't make us pay though)
It's always great to see big setup that are essentially what we can do but just bigger. The last one really allows the actors to move freely and it's lovely.
Thank you for sharing these!
Square space getting professionally lit ads from my man here
Really inspiring series! Particularly when you describe achieving a similar look on a scaled-down set... something at least us mere mortal can aspire to. Next episode should be a breakdown of that Squarespace ad! 🔥
He did a breakdown of the ad in this video! ruclips.net/video/Sh2S3df-wEo/видео.html&ab_channel=LewisPotts
I usually don't hit the bell icon for channels but I did it for this one, your content has become a priority. Thanks for sharing your expertise, much appreciated
Great idea.
Thanks you man!
Same...and I never bell any channels
This series on your channel is super useful! Thank you for that.
Please teach us more, my favourite DP on RUclips 🙌
The only gripe I have is that these videos aren’t longer
You missed one! In the second scenario (I believe), Kirsten Dunst (blonde standing talking to the two black women) had a bounce at the sitting women’s shoulder level, lifting the shadows under her chin and on her face.
Ah yep your right, nice spot!
Epic Light Media sent me here ☺️
That ad break is solid haha !!
I want a breakdown of the laptop shot for the sponsor section
I was really surprised when I noticed that all of the window shades were closed in the profile shot at 3:14. I wasn't expecting to see one small light. I was hoping for some sheer curtains on the windows. It appears to me in that shot that it was night because there is no light coming through the blinds.
yea. While it doesn't really take me out of the story - it does feel like it was left for last and they had no way to recreate some daylight ambience to liven up those shades.
Lol I love how it starts with the dude passed out lol
7:07 this guy?? Don´t call Sheldon "This Guy"
Haha
Crazy that first shot I thought was digital until you hit me with the BTS. My first short film was shot on a Panaflex 35mm used on a couple Oscar winning films which my DP had bought of the Cinematographer but I think had Cooke optics. Still looking at the 4K original scanned images there's just nothing like celluloid.
Love this analysis. Could you breakdown some Succession's scenes?
Hey Lewis, I think I noticed you using 2 different sized flexible LED mats . What sizes are they ?
Dope
Umm nice lighting set up but the $250,000 camera and the $20,000 lens makes a little difference ?????????
Thank you for showcasing some African American films… 🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾
You're my fav man! Let's go! Learned so much already but running out of vids to watch :P
this is another shot of this guy..... Jim Parsons lol ok he is not Kevin but I think he deserves to have his name on it ahahahahahah Amazing video dude!!!!! Just found your channel now... subscribing!!!!!!!
nice, thanks
Idk man but the final shot looks like the lights were turned off.
"This guy right here has deinitely had enough" My mans was KNOCKED. At that point no energy drink/coffee even really works.
But really he was deep in the weeds probably mixing or marking up the take sheet
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HAHAHA... The guy wasn't sleep lol He was writing things down. U can see him in the back over head wide shot writing lol
I want to watch like 100 analysis of movies like this one
Very instructive video ! great ! and I rarely laugh at ad's for sponsors included in a video, but here I good hearted did !, More of this instructional content is always a pleasure to watch. Thanks !
I sent a quote into Panavision Hollywood for T series lenses last week! Fingers crossed budget gets approved
Too much hipstorness and glorifying expensive stuff
6:02 under chin bouncer and white cloth on the table for extra bounced light
Hey man I would love for you to cover the show Genera+ion on HBO! Very naturalistic lighting. I love the natural look they produce
Make me understand lighting!
I love this channel and from now on I’ll be regular
people think much when it comes to lighting a scene, after watching some of your videos, and few others RUclipsrs, figuring out how to light is quit easy then figuring out where to place the light and what else to use to get it to the right point, also how to make two different scene look like one same scene with with using different source of lights from different distance. dam its hard this way hahaha, but thank you for this video, I understood quit a lot. and got some kind of confidence after watching this video. thanks appreciate
these breakdowns are super interesting ! thank you,
unfortunately i only shot these cheap Vazen Anamorphics so i have a long way to go haha
Thanks, they're still great lenses
Pls edit your videos to be all black, cant watch at night cuz of that white background flashing, thanks!
Love these breakdowns!
I have AC’d on Pana 35mm and certainly don’t think I’ve made it.
Wild they didn't bother to fix that gavel continuity thing. It's not overlapping anything other than a black void. Would have been trivially easy to cut/paste/track it into the shot where it's missing.
Du très bon boulot Mr.Potts, C'est très intéressant et instructif. Merci beaucoup !!
Some of your points are good, but your missing a lot of whats going on, esspecially in the background, that really brings the shot to life.
Also, things like the wagflag that you point out at 2:26 looks like its bottom pulled back, so its actually open to the ceiling while controlling everything bouncing off the wall behind it. The duv behind it is blocking a lot of the ceiling light though so the effect is pretty much what you said.
My guess is that the guy 'sleeping' is instead the B cam 2nd AC trying to stay out of the actors' eyeline... and that's a good thing...
Your ads are fire lol. Are the push ins done in post? Or did you have someone doing that by hand?
This is fantastic! I'd love to see you dive into what makes you drool over top tier lenses such as those primes. A video discussing the difference between the your average starter prime and a Cooke or top tier prime would be so clutch. I'd love to understand all of the subtle differences
Here from Epic Light Media. Great Channel
Thank you so so so much for another super valuable video. Quick question for you ... I noticed that the BTS shots are always significantly brighter than the final output. I do that as well when shooting Sony LOG footage, so that I can hide the noise later in post. Exposing to the right of the histo as standard practice with that workflow. However, is that the same logic here or are there other principles involved with why they would do that?
“Some guy” Bro that’s Jim Parsons??
Learning loads from you, thanks for your work man.
What a great breakdown! What’s that badass diffusion you are using at 1:39?
I love your filmy look. Could you please make a color grading tutorial
Excellent video sir...make more behind the scenes videos
Maybe show us how you lit the square space sponsor ad
I guess "this guy" at 07:09 is used to stand in the spotlight all the time ;-)
Dude you are actually so underrated it’s insane
Awesome breakdowns! So much to learn here. Thanks!
nice stuff! curious what fixture you have at the 1:36 mark?
Your channel is amazing! Thank you so much!
I love the aspect ratio you chose in this video. Very creative
I sht a music video with t series lenses yes they were insane
Leave that guy alone😂😂.
Lew just hits different - thanks mate
Lewis I can't survive 3 weeks without a video
@4:46 beautiful blacks and glossy
I love your lighting breakdowns. You're able to get your hands on BTS shots that show how the lights are rigged and laid out. There is so much to learn from these detailed breakdowns.
What light is that @1:37 you're showing?
its harder to light black people....
These breakdowns 🔥 🔥
Lewis Potts upload days are the best days
Thank you so much! I love these!!
More of these please
more of these pls
Please do more videos like this. 🙏🏻
Awesome stuff, as usual.
Beautiful breakdowns!! Just wanted to know the source for these behind the scene videos of the set. Please keep them coming, really helpful!
Thanks, they're on RUclips
At 0:16 seconds is that a 100mm lens that close? How much would be in the frame, the two ladies standing?
It's anamorphic, so it's probably a close up of her face
Great breakdown as usual.
what an ad lewis!!
RUclipsrs from Australia like you and wandering dp, have best content when comes to getting a feeling for cinematography.
Great video as always man
This really explains it really well, keep it up!
Best Squarespace ad ;)
Really enjoyed this video brother.Learned alot from these video as well!
What light is that at 1:40 ? It's so thin yet so big!
Intelly tech mega light mat
Would love to see a breakdown from Still Here, the music video you shot por Kllo!!! Love the cinematography, and would love to know how you exposed the images
I subscribed because i watched your dusk and dawn lighting tips video and dont regret it. You seem like an awesome dude. Thanks for putting the effort into creating these and sharing your knowledge. Wish you the best dude!
Soft fill and hard backlight. Tried and tested throughout time :)
I love your videos man! Could you make a video about Soderberghs lighting setups? I've read a an interview where he said he doesn't really like to light his scenes, I've always wondered what he meant by that.
Man, I love these videos.. please keep'm coming. .So helpful.