Imagine the pressure on the guy lighting this interview

These are great. I could easily watch a 45 min long video of Julian White deconstructing film lighting

Loved the Lee Filter diffusion cloth overview at the beginning. Very interesting.

Thank you Cooke! You always deliver with awesome content! Julian is a natural teacher. Such a intelligent and cool guy!

Such a great seamless explanation of a beautiful craft!

I love these videos! Please keep making them. Lighting is always the best!

Amazing interview and content. I love this channel so much!

Wonderful masterclass - thanks for sharing this!

Love these interviews!

Love the episode. Moonlight is blue because night scenes are lit for 32k practicals, making the moonlight blue by comparison since it is a reflection of daylight.

CTS - this was new to me. Thank you sir and channel

Very helpful thank you for this. My only concern is the timing between this and the last video. A year for the follow up is a long time

Gaffer's are an artist by themselves

Many thanks for sharing!

I'm guessing that night / moonlight was commonly blue in early color-era films because people's eyes were used to being adjusted to a house full of incandescent light bulbs, which are essentially electrical candles, and very warm / orange looking. Those incandescent bulbs were warmer than tungsten halogen, florescent, and LED lights. This means moonlight did seem much bluer in comparison. Also, it's a stylistic way to differentiate between day and night. Older dramas often seem to be lower key and more contrasty than modern ones, and the blue light definitely helps distinguish the night scenes from other daytime scenes with similar lighting. Also, with black & white being the norm for so long, emphasizing the color in an essentially greyscale night scene likely looked more appealing and interesting. I'm still a fan of the bluer moonlight. Too many DPs have lost stylization and go for "clean and accurate." Not my cup of tea. Emphasize the emotion of the film with style, including unique color, and the viewer gets immersed deeper into the world of the film. (I guess DPs use colorists to do that part now. This is also a newer phenomenon.) Tastes and trends will continue to evolve. Do you follow trends or set them?

I have growing pet peeve with the tendencies to over light night scenes. I really like it when DP's allow darkness and shadows to exist and occupy a large part of the scene. But most want all the background and other areas of the scene to be awash in light as well and it looks very unnatural.

He said the rag trade in LA, but I'm pretty sure he meant The Rag Place, if anyone was curious.

thank you very much,don't let him go !

This was a really good video.

I agree with his school of thought & approach.

May you take a look at the subtitles (caption) please? I don`t speak english very well to understand exactly what he are sayng... the automatic caption ins`t working well.

How does one go about getting "grey moonlight"?

Is the 1/4 CTS going in over the top of the white balance or is the white balance happening after the 1/4 CTS has been added? Anyone have an i formed answer? Thanks

Malcolm McDowell knows to much bout lights!

This guy is no BS, at all. Damn 👏

so knowledgeable

Where can I find an online Masterclass for this??

I’m a baby to all of film making. I do actually use tissues for noise muffling and light diffusion lmao Seeing experienced people be frank and not hoity-toity about it. Saying things like “use what works” and “your eyes really can’t tell the difference” makes film making seem much more approachable and less serious

The moon is reflecting daylight from the sun and if you put that in contrast to tungsten light yes moonlight is blue

Gaffers are cool.

Coolest guy ever

did he say CTS on tungsten not daylight?? warm to warmer?

Does anyone know the movie on 4:19?

These short videos are great. Shouldn't forget that the final colour and lighting will be the result of the colourist though.

And then they add a LUT in post.

It's funny, the point that he makes about moonlight not being blue, but but being used to depict a moonlit night in Hollywood movies in a certain period. I suddenly remembered the kids British cartoon of the early 80's called 'Jamie And The Magic Torch'; you can find the intro/outro to the cartoon on KZfaq. The intro and outro were depicted as night time and I remembered it being somewhat Blue. I just went to find it, and it IS blue, really, really blue. The house lights viewed from the street are all some shade of yellow, but anything outside, lit by moonlight is some shade of blue. Fascinating. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zpx-e6-SuLrOf6c.html

look at those repurposed evian water bottles 🤓😎👍🏽

Referring to using blue light for the moon, he states, "I wonder who thought of that." Anecdotally people just copy famous people. Every "KZfaqr/FilmMakers" videos and studios all look the same. People just mimick what a succesful person does rather than trying their own stretch of fate. It really does get boring after awhile. But people are sheeple.

I’m calling BS on that “moonlight isn’t blue” thing. Sure it ain’t as blue as it is in those movies form the 80s and 90s but I’ve been having a lot of direct moon light the last couple of month especially during full moon and I kept thinking two things to myself. One: well that’s a bit blue isn’t it? And two: damn that’s bright, I wonder if I’d be able to get an exposure in that light with a fast enough lens and a high enough ASA without having the image be just noise. Of course moonlight isn’t full on blue but the light still has to go through the atmosphere and at the angle at which it does it comes out having a blue hue.

Didn't understand much.

Crazy Rich Asians has some of the worst lighting I’ve ever seen. Just harsh light shining on the backs of people’s heads, and all these great looking actors look sick and sweaty.

This would be a lot more credible if the lighting were good.