Does anyone know the technical term

[XanaDUer2]

For when they film a movie during the day, but darken the scenes to make it look like it's nighttime? I used to know this description, and forgot it. Making me crazy!

Tyia film lovers

[dchill]

1. B.

[XanaDUer2]

2. B? Nt

[dchill]

4. It's a "B" movie. Yes, I think I'm funny! 🤣

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Day for Night.

There's a movie out there with that exact name.

It helps to be old. The movie Day for Night came out in 1973, and I saw it back then.

[XanaDUer2]

5. Thats it!

Ty so much. I even saw that movie last month

[Frasier Balzov]

10. Superb Truffaut film for anybody who loves the industry.

[werdna]

6. They used a scrim in the good old days of film recording.

A piece of dark, course, heatproof cloth was placed over the lens of the camera. different grades of cloth produced varying levels of darkness.

[usonian]

8. I recall a color correction filter named "B" and it looks like an 80B

https://www.samys.com/c/Color-Correction-Filters/3/362.html

80B KB12 Circular Cooling Filter
This 55mm Deep Blue KB-12 filter is used to balance daylight film under artificial, tungsten or standard (household) incandescent lighting. The 80B series filters increase color temperature from 3400 to 5500K.

Underexposing with this would also shift the sun's light into the blue-ish night-time hue one expects.

B for Blue, I suppose.

[progressoid]

9. D4N (Day for Night)

In the old black and white days, it was simply a matter of underexposing the film. But today, there are more sophisticated techniques.

https://filmlifestyle.com/how-to-shoot-day-for-night/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_for_night

[BigmanPigman]

11. That style is always distracting to me.

Just last night I was watching TCM film with Bette Davis and they used this technique. I see sharp contrasts, light, shadows, etc in the middle of the night and it drives me nuts!! I can't follow the film since the lighting is so fucked up. I am an illustrator and a very visual person so this is probably more irritating to me than most people. The same goes with watering all the surfaces of roads, streets, sidewalks, etc to make it look new or something. All it does is look wet AND ridiculous since nothing else is wet. Also, very annoying as far as visuals go.