how did they make this? 

Just as RU-vid gets boring... you post a new video. Thanks man, I really enjoy your style of sharing!

Freaking thank you so much for talking about The Covenant. Not nearly enough folks have seen or even heard of that movie but it really is a great time and very well made! I never would have thought all that work goes into such a simple dialogue scene!

I love this style of content - not too busy with animations, shouting, rambling or begging for subscribers. Thanks very much.

I love Deakins’ approach to compositing or CGI for his visuals. He uses it as a real tool to make something possible where CGI is the only reasonable option to make it work. It’s not meant to show off but rather to blend in nicely into the scene and the story

1917 is a masterpiece obviously so that was interesting but The Covenant completely flew under the (my) radar and this is the first I've heard about it. The work that goes into lighting is incredible. It's basically a professional photography shoot but for a moving picture which makes it exponentially more complex. With reverse shots, multiple angles and moving subjects things get complicated fast. I wonder how much they plan beforehand, lighting wise, and how much is done on the day. I suppose for exterior shots a lot is improvised to make use of natural light and obviously interior shots can be planned out more beforehand. The extra light they needed for that large hangar shot was nuts. You don't even think, "Hang on, that should actually be pretty dark in there", which is of course the director's intention. Very interesting mate. Definitely subbed

Lewis, are you aware how much you look and "feel" like deakins?)) you are almost the same person in voice, mannerisms etc. it's so funny, like it's time travel

You have no idea how much im learning with you Lewis. Thanks for this

Lewis! Can u do a breakdown of your camera kit/AC kit/tool kit??

Yesss always excited to watch your videos!

Love the style of your videos and your sense of humor keep going.

So clear and informative - examples which we can actually try out without expensive gear. This is a gift, thank you! Also - how to put this concisely...The fact that you're using Epidemic Sound makes the world of difference to the way you present it to us. It's rare for me to watch a sponsor segment but the way you did it here, it was really interesting and no longer than it needed to be. As a result of seeing this promo, I'll be looking into the product. This is definitely the way to go.

Thank you so much for sharing!

Do we really have a "well actually it's cold here but it's supposed to be the desert so our lead's only wearing a combat shirt but since they're just human here's a don't freeze" jacket at 8:02?

Using a crew member as a light stand AKA "Hollywooding it"

They make it look so easy...

What's not clear to me in the first example if if they went back, reshot the scene, and then composited over the one with the shadow, how did they get the actor's expression in both shots to match up so perfectly? Maybe they only composited a partial side of his face with the light, not his actual facial expressions..?

You have an eagle eye for spotting bits of information in BTS clips or stills.

Thank you

I didn't realise the first film featured was 1917! Luckily I found it in the comments.

Thanks lewis. Me encantaria que hiieras mas vdeos como este, desglosando la peli y sus aspectos tecnicos. Posdata: me gusta esa forma simple e ironica con un toque de humor negro que le imprimes a tus videos. Un abrazo bro!

freaking brilliant. Ran into this recently and and wish I'd known about this

jake gyllenhaal is such a great actor .. literally thinking as i was watching ... every role he gets he absolutely smashes!

BAAAAAAAAAABBBEEEE POTTS POSTED

great job! keep going

Great video

Brilliant stuff. Likes and subscribed.

well made!

5:03 to be honest, I don't understand what was the point of these complex lighting installations for these frames.

Thanks

8:42 dude he's homelander

Yeah well they forgot the fire light flicker aspect...plus it was too bright on his face --but the composite idea was good. He shoulda lit it w/ real fire and used an anamorphic lens.

I’m going to say well done because firstly I watched the Covenant recently and thought “how did Guy Ritchie do this so effortlessly” and secondly the use of close ups along with constantly using different camera angles can be a little distracting at times. Yet it works.😅❤

If CGI haters only knew…

😮😮😮

Some of these are obvious

Deakins really knows what he's doing, not like those two pretentious guys Nolan and Tarantino that refuses to use digital cameras and CG "because it's not cinema".

I dont care

In this sea of 'whats-up-guys-it's-ya-boi' bro-youtuberness your videos are like a nice little beach island with these quality insights, and just the right amount of memedog sprinkled in. Keep doing what you're doing Lewis. P.S. if you ever want to graduate from library music, I'd be delighted to write some music for you sometime. ;)

I swear half my film degree is just coming back to your channel and watching this video series. Top notch every time 👌

Great video as always Lewis! I remember watching that scene in 1917 in the theatres and thinking, how in the hell did he pull this one off?! Fascinating bit of info!

My brain is still melted by Deakins explanation.... I think I understand but also think I don't !

I’m a simple man, I see Lewis Potts, I like and watch.

00:39 - I seriously think pros should use the term "CGI" only where it's relevant, and in this case it's really called a "composite". CGI means something literally generated and pixel produced inside a 3D program. CGI is really misused all over the place particularly by those who don't do FX.

Listening the Deakins podcast is always an excellent lesson to learn and in a way that not everybody could explain better. Now this video it's perfect for fans, Deakins fans and your channel fans. Excellent timing, content, and themes with incredible visuals. That's why we subbed!

hey lewis i know you probably won’t see this but i REALLY fucking love and appreciate your videos dude. everything you make is so entertaining and informative and you’re honestly one of my favorite youtubers. keep up the great work.

"This Guy" name sir, is...HOMELANDER!!! Great video though, thank you.

Regularly watching your videos. Recently watched that flip flop video which was great

no wonder movies cost so much and here I am thinking digital cameras should cut cost because they don't use film 😅

“Don’t worry, when you add them all up, they’re not too expensive”😂💀

Hey Lewis . I got an doubt . In the army scene u showed the convo scene . The iso on that camera was set on 500 . Why a 500 iso tho . Can’t they just keep it at 100 ? Arent the lights they use powerful and also tunable as per their wish ? Why a 500 iso tho ? @lewis

I know nothing about film. This was super interesting to learn about.

i just ordered 6 NEEWER sky-jacks

Appreicate your breakdowns as always. Lovely insight on what it means to light !

Great content and analysis..keep'm coming! Thnx

More useful than my university degree, and only cost me a like (because I wanted to). Another wicked video man!

You are a pure legend bro. Your content is always super interesting and I just enjoy in every video. I learned so much from you. Massive respect from Bosnia.

The other thing I noticed about the light panel in the indoor scene was (at least in the BTS) that it was relatively white. So besides all the other issues with fire on set, they also appear to have filmed with whiter light and colour-graded warm, rather than filming warm (or even having the light panel set to "fire tones")

Man, i'm from México, it'w 5:32 AM, me encantan tus videos cabron jajajaj, lov ur work

I really appreciate your breakdowns of these setups. It takes the mystique and magic of lighting and breaks it down into digestible pieces I can try and apply to my own shoots.

In that final shot you can see there's an 8x8 way off to the left of the helicopter, I assume acting like a kind of ambient bounce as well.

Thank you so much for this. Lighting breakdowns are so helpful and informative, I could watch videos like this one for hours.

nice job as usual Lewis. Thanks for putting time, thought and effort into your videos

You’re a seriously good teacher Lewis. 🤘🏼 Keep em comin 🤘🏼

Love your channel! Keep it up dude

So much efforts for details.

Bro. Your humor. On point. I had to pause to laugh out loud at the 10x18k's in the B&H shopping cart. Thank you.

you taught me something today. thank you

dude, you’re the only RU-vidr who has an audience who doesn’t actively skip their sponsor messages. I actually rewatch them. You’re a genius mate, you’ve cracked the code

LOL I can't believe you caught the mirror shot!!!! They did not retouch it. I love it. You got a keen eye. Btw. this movie looked amazing and was such a good time.

Seul un vrai reconnaîtra la musique de Modifie Mon Véhicule à 3:40 🇫🇷💪

Wow, Commander Waterford is a badass

very cool information, I really liked it, I will wait for new videos from you

love me a new Lewis Potts video!

Я даже не думал что такие цены на оборудование сразу кажется покупка за 165 р zv e 1 просто копейки раз я стримлюсь на высокий уровень ❤

Trust me . The pros don't work or put so much into lighting......$250,000 cameras and vfx companies are at their disposal.

It is the highlight moment when Lewis Potts uploads a new video.

Genuine happiness when I see you've uploaded a vid.

I like this a lot

I love your videos Lewis - but you should know that Epidemic sound do not pay their music creators well. They are basically undercutting the entire market and giving composers a really bad deal in order to provide cheap prices to editors/video creators.

8:41 '' THIS GUY '' is homelander.. His name is HOMELANDER , probably come to there check Soldier Boy or BlackNoir.

When we did a "zero budget" film project in Uni we used literal neon tubes and had them shine through either opaque white (cold light) or brown/golden (warm light) paper. Cost us something like 20€ for a "light setup".

6.18 thats probably arri sky pane 360 bsed on the size. looks like a 1/2...1/4 silk? everything is boxed up with muslin and the open end scrims would bee double and a single scrim pretty mobile and chea setup apart from 18k's theres actualy a better option for that rig outside. Witch is suprising. Thanks for your videos!

If you really really want to shoot with 10 18K HMIs, you still don't need to buy them for $577K - because you can probably rent them for around $8K for a day all together. (But then there's renting the condors themselves, and generators and distro, not to mention the crew...)

I guess you shouldn't buy those 18k's, you can rent it. Also generators and cranes, 10 lights, probably 20-30k a day, less if you rent for more days and get a package deal. Not for low budget stuff. :D

i hate how you give no context in your thumbnail what this video is about i click 10/10 times to "show nothng from this channel again"

As a muso, that segway makes me hope all films can be done with stock footage.

there's cons and pro of RU-vid algorithm. Pros its cool when it recommend a new channel based from my interest. cons: how come ive only discover this channel!?!?? 🤣 ngl be seeing ya in 250K

1917 is such a lame movie. It's like a long music video and one of the main characters looks just like Ben Shapiro. Absolute vanity project

Bro you almost have a milliom views. I remember when you appeared as coincidence when WanderingDP stopped posting, thing changed

I would really love to see more breakdowns like this for more movies. I work in the grip & electric departments and I thought this breakdown was super helpful!!

Love these videos, dude! Thanks for making cool stuff

Sometimes simpler is better. If you can just have a guy hold a reflector then why bother setting up an additional light in a confined space? It was good enough for Kurosawa.

That explains the bit of uncanny valley I get during that shot. Something’s just off about his face, and it being composited in from two shots done at different distances makes sense.

Someone, please tell me why does everyone hold their lav-mic in their hands all of a sudden?? It’s like doing handheld work with your camera on a tripod. #triggered!

Why? Give us a movie with a good story, and we won't care where the fuck the shadows are. Is this why movie budgets are skyrocketing because a director thinks it's pretty neat not to cast shadows?

Dimming different lights as the camera moves around the imaginary "fire" to give it a natural glow and movement is so genius. When you say it out loud, it seems like such a basic idea. Yet it has taken how many years for someone to figure out how to use it like *this?*

Musical instruments are Haram, the proof Sahi, Bukhari

one reason we go to set with full length pants is for reasons like this, having to kneel down on gravel or something rough to be a light stand 🤣

hahaha when you put the png of the trinity over the boom pole... I lost it 🤣

So happy you edit in DaVinci Resolve.