Director Nick Vallelonga wanted a dark, mysterious night interior. Unfortunately, time and money dictated this scene be shot in the day. And the location had nothing but white walls. You can use paint settings on your camera to add depth to less-than perfect location shots. DP Vladimir Van Maule captured the HD footage with the Panasonic VariCam at 720p into the Panasonic 1200A deck, which removes pulldown and upconverts to uncompressed 1080/23.976 PsF on the fly. He used the VariCam’s paint settings to record the scene with a rich cobalt hue.
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