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Most of the nighttime scenes in Jordan Peele's "Nope" (2022) were filmed in broad daylight. The same is true of films like "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015), "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), and many other Hollywood classics. So why does Hollywood film its night scenes during the daytime? We spoke with cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema - the director of photography behind "Nope" and other films like "Tenet" (2020), "Dunkirk" (2017), and "Interstellar" (2014) - about the challenges of this approach and how he innovated an entirely new way of shooting day for night for "Nope."
Historically, the day-for-night approach hasn't always produced the most convincing results. On "Nope," Van Hoytema and director Jordan Peele wanted to avoid the aesthetic of practical smoke and fake silhouettes that characterizes traditional day-for-night scenes - an aesthetic that Van Hoytema and Peele referred to as "movie nights." To find a new approach, Van Hoytema adapted a technique he originally developed to film a lunar chase for "Ad Astra" (2019). The solution on that film involved a two-lens 3D camera rig, including one camera that filmed in color and one camera that filmed in infrared. The infrared footage allowed the team to more naturally alter the colors of the California landscape into something closer to moon lighting.
Van Hoytema used a similar two-camera rig on "Nope" that simulated the way the human eye behaves in low-light scenarios. The result: deep, immersive nights that capture the vastness of the desert and sky - and amp up the tension in Peele's sci-fi thriller.
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@derkeheath5172 Год назад

As someone who has watched TONS of low budget movies with night scenes where NOTHING is visible, I REALLY appreciated the ultra-clear, day-for-night photography in Nope....even if you CAN see shadows.

@sallymatthews4896 Год назад

1¹'s

@joelmercado1099 Год назад

A few weeks after seeing Nope the power went out in my neighborhood and there was a full moon, I was surprised that I could actually see my shadow made by moonlight.

@gabeleadabriel8571 Год назад

@@joelmercado1099 the most beautiful time of the day honestly, when the moon is full and it's lights out everywhere... the dim gray light is beautiful

@realchezboi Год назад

@@gabeleadabriel8571 Mmm around midnight sometimes i spot the shadows made by the stuff in my backyard by the moonlight, looks sooo beautiful

@sayansarkarz5414 Год назад

Where I live, there's always a shadow, even at night.

@selvamthiagarajan8152 Год назад

The problem as a viewer I notice with night scenes shot at day, is how actors and animals act in the night scenes like they would during day. Example, you don't squint your eyes to look at things in poor light, you open your eyes wide, you don't move swiftly or easily in the dark, but rather take deliberate careful steps, you don't sprint in the dark in a forest, you run with your arms out stretched to prevent collision, etc. I hope the filmmakers can emulate night time behaviors in day shoot for night scenes. And o the shadows cast on the subject, you need powerful day light to cast such well defined shadows, moonlight doesn't cast such strong shadows.

@L0K0M0T1V Год назад

TRUEEE

@YuutaShinjou113 Год назад

The channel really should give this comment a 'heart'.

@abhijithpanicker1990 Год назад

Damn, that was detailed!!♥️👏🏾👌🏾

@dregzartmedia4062 Год назад

Deep observations I agree 😊

@gardenfilms1 Год назад

Wait... You don't squint in the dark? Sounds sarcastic but I definitely find myself squinting more in dimly lit areas.

@jimmerhardy Год назад

The merging of normal and infrared footage is brilliant, working to open up dark complexions. Quite a breakthrough innovation.

@-arb- Год назад

youtube compression doesn't do this movie justice. it's really beautiful

@DennisSchmitz Год назад

definitely, especially in Dolby Vision.

@resa574 Год назад

Especially on a top spec oled tv The colors just pop and the blacks are beatiful

@DaveUnreally Год назад

It’s also very helpful to film on overcast days, much easier to balance things out. Digital painters in animation studios will typically have an overcast color key that they can manipulate into different times of day concept art easier. Of course, you can’t always wait for an overcast day, especially in the desert. I thought it looked great in this movie! The worse is when movies do this on a bright day in the woods, the contrast is too much and you can tell the dappled light is sunlight

@iau Год назад

Nope was such a brilliant movie. I feel for all those who saw it knowing what it was about. The movie spends so long building up to the reveal that it works so well as long as you don't know what it is.

@KillerTacos54 Год назад

Fantastic video!! I was really impressed with the night time cinematography in this film, so I'm glad you guys made a video about it

@grapeey2k Год назад

Nope's one of the best sci fi movies ever, also one of the best looking

@DenonBoyofthe21stCentury Год назад

Horror*

@woohoobarz Год назад

@@DenonBoyofthe21stCentury I’d say it’s more terror

@wavion2 Год назад

Night scenes shot at night almost always look better because they actually have to put thought into lighting the scene with real light sources. That's half of the battle right there.

@brown9671 Год назад

The problem is that they’re filming a wide open field. It’s practically impossible to practically light a huge open field

@wavion2 Год назад

@@brown9671 I'm not talking about "Nope" specifically. Obviously, there will be times when this approach is the only practical choice. But if you can film it at night and light it practically, that is the way to go.

@annasolovyeva1013 Год назад

@@brown9671 you can practically light a huge open field of snow for example. Or anything reflective.

@fireandblood2919 Год назад

Some scenes in different movies aren’t in big cities with street lights or torches everywhere in medieval shows/movies.

@woohoobarz Год назад

It’s one of those movies that is so brilliant watching it the first time, you can’t help but watch it more to break apart the story and analyze

@aaZhan Год назад

Amazing! NOPE is one of my favourite movies! Absolutely love it! I've watched it so many times and each time I feel like I am discovering something new!

@nerd_in_norway Год назад

Yes! An underrated masterpiece!

@AntonioRodriguez-tk4wp Год назад

If you think nope is good i feel bad for you... It was a confused disaster. I think Jordan is getting worse with every movie.

@DenonBoyofthe21stCentury Год назад

@@AntonioRodriguez-tk4wpsomeone’s mad Jordan actually made a complex film this time around. It’s okay you don’t get it LMAO

@richarddecredico6098 Год назад

You need to see more films

@carlosalejandroalvarenga4913 Год назад

@@AntonioRodriguez-tk4wp if you didn’t understand a movie that’s on you

@tarunindoriya902 Год назад

For me , the northman has the most beautiful and convincing night shots i ever seen....

@KillerTacos54 Год назад

YES!! So true

@JADNCK Год назад

Do you know if those were shot as day for night?

@tarunindoriya902 Год назад

@@JADNCK i don't think so , they war shot on night and lit by overhead crane and then colour graded in post...

@ryanjosephdp Год назад

It was night

@LigmaDonuts Год назад

Sorry, I can't get over how awesome the name Hoyte Van Hoytema is.

@GarretGrayCamera Год назад

The night scenes in Jaws I thought looked great. A movie doesn't have to get it exactly right, part of a movie is the dream like experience. I think going for 100% realism is putting technical over feeling. Even those old westerns where it's obviously day for night, it still tells the story and it doesn't bother you if you're wrapped up in the story.

@tricksterhoisington1470 Год назад

Exactly, movies will never be reality and that’s okay. Some people still have to learn this.

@johnnumber5660 Год назад

Jaws did also just actually film at night, but that’s not always practical. So as you said, they do what they can to emulate reality and more importantly, get across their artistic vision

@Canuck1000 Год назад

When I took a course on movie reviews (in French), this kind of scene was referred to as "Nuits Americaines" or "American Nights."

@alex.shutters Год назад

That’s very cool. Tu es canadien?

@Canuck1000 Год назад

@@alex.shutters Oui !

@fruzsimih7214 11 месяцев назад

That actually the original title of Truffaut's film mentioned in the video (La nuit américaine).

@Canuck1000 11 месяцев назад

@@fruzsimih7214 Yes, it is.

@add00ra 3 месяца назад

Oh! I searched the topic with the second one, I'm Mexican! Good to know I wasn't bad

@BlenderStudy Год назад

Amazing special effects..!! Thank you for the update, Insider..!!

@jenn_willey Год назад

this video came up randomly in my suggestions: I havent even watched Nope yet! gonna get on that -This looks so amazing!

@trevorhunt Год назад

Such a good dive into this subject

@Nebula1428 Год назад

A great "yup" to the "nope" movie🎬

@mepha7876 Год назад

Day for night seems like night in full moon which is very much like a night for me and kinda nostalgic for me.

@Shinya_______ Год назад

I really want someone to make a tutorial breakdown of the post production process of merging ir footage with colour like that for day for night. Cuz realistically you could get the same effect on a super small budget with 2 cameras, a filter and some creative problem solving.

@RJ-vy9ch Год назад

One of the best examples of this technique is used in The Beach with Leonardo Dicaprio. He’s walking on the beach at night with a girl and their eyes are squinting in the sun.

@rickroll5504 Год назад

To me, Nope is one of the greatest movies in very long time

@richarddecredico6098 Год назад

Condolences

@derkeheath5172 Год назад

It was definitely my favorite movie of 2022, though I found 2022 to be a pretty abysmal year for films. My only complaint was with some of the editing - Peele has teased a Director's Cut that I hope we get some day.

@DojoFromYT Год назад

This movie in IMAX was such a party🎉

@anthonykearneyfilms Год назад

IMO it was mid

@DojoFromYT Год назад

@@anthonykearneyfilms everyone is entitled to their own opinion 🙂

@anthonykearneyfilms Год назад

@@DojoFromYT yeah. For me the story didn’t carry the movie well. Visuals were impressive but story lacking. Kinda like Dune

@mlw9195 Год назад

@@anthonykearneyfilms I agree! I wasn’t impressed when I saw it. I felt it would’ve been the same in a regular movie theater

@fireandblood2919 Год назад

Was able to see House of the Dragon night scenes just fine. It’s no where near as dark as the image you shared on my iPhone 13 Pro whenever I watch it live on HBO app.

@arnoldmayii3563 Год назад

Fascinating

@Noahyus Год назад

Incredible

@robertdickerson16 Год назад

I think the title says it all insider.

@Maya-uj6fm Год назад

this is so cool

@khurramkhurshed9427 Год назад

Interesting facts

@RobbieSkaff Год назад

Really cool techniques

@Searchingtheworld7183 Год назад

This is All I need about the how make the night scenes in the movies.

@YouAreStillNotablaze Год назад

Just saw this last night , was pretty good. Didn't notice all these nuances though.

@ImTHECarlos98 Год назад

That’s the point.

@YouAreStillNotablaze Год назад

@@ImTHECarlos98 Well I mean the use in "Nope" where you don't see the writing on his hat at first, such that it simulates your eyes adjusting to the darkness. Of course this is streaming with Prime Video's spotty "HD" quality. I remember thinking visual and audio wise this would have been a great movie to see in theatres.

@nicholasdiaz8181 Год назад

This movie was incredible. I liked Get Out. Thought US was a little pretentious so I was unsure about this one but ended up loving this movie

@abdullah-_-. Год назад

US was pretentious? Explain please (I actually wanna know this is not a hate or sarcastic comment)

@nicholasdiaz8181 Год назад

@@abdullah-_-. In my opinion, it wasn’t bad. I’d rather watch a movie that has big ambitions but misses the target rather than a good movie that’s already been done too many times. I just felt like the concept was meant for the audience to say “wow” but it wasn’t strong enough to wow me, personally.

@ABC-sz7rd Год назад

….

@abdullah-_-. Год назад

@@nicholasdiaz8181 ohh yeah yeah I agree tho I liked it maybe more than some people I still knew the concepts were created with a certain "wow factor" in mind

@LoyaltotheNightsky Год назад

I like pretentious. We need more pretentious. It usually ends up in better films.

@han_444 Год назад

i saw a day for night shot in the first season of Outer Banks and its as if they just added a blue tint and called it a day. the sun was supposed to be the moon in the shot but it was so obviously not night time it took me out lmao

@Highrollers209 Год назад

This film is the best ive watched ever I love how they were serious at all times I love it

@richarddecredico6098 Год назад

So you have seen like three movies in your life?

@t500010000 Год назад

Awesome movie

@jennglow4647 Год назад

Cool 😃

@vickinutter5733 Год назад

Loved this movie so original but not one water tank in sight for those horses

@OtsoNick Год назад

Man what a good reminder about how garbage house of the dragons night time lighting was. I stopped twice to see if my screen was fucked up or if it was glitched or something.

@JWS1968 5 месяцев назад

Wedding photographers have been using this trick forever. It's used on the first dance. No bride and groom ever wants a well lit room for their first dance . they want the lights low and romantic. So what we do is we start off with the lights low and slowly edge them up to where we can get a decent exposure.

@jesseelliot4804 Год назад

0:30 yo pause 😂

@Ayan44 Год назад

btw the vfx team were mostly indian designers based in bangalore india for Nope

@mikecappello 10 месяцев назад

John Carpenter watching this... "Yawning, yeah sure.. whatever"

@bigdaddyprofit Год назад

i noticed though

@itsalexvargas Год назад

wow

@casedistorted Год назад

I love Mad Max Fury Road but I don't think their night scenes were "successful", as the narrator puts it. When I think of that film I just think of how 1/3 of the film is blue because they wanted it to seem like they were traveling at night. The night time is not convincing to me, it feels like they filmed in the daytime and just turned it blue to seem like night, I hate the effect. What they did in Nope though was incredible. Watching that movie for the first time last night on Prime I completely forgot that they recorded it in the daytime even though I had seen this video first. It was a very convincing effect, especially the morning after scene when they were running from the house to the Fry van, it looked so dang good. Even the blood rain scene I forgot that was fake night time, it was incredible cinematography. Mad Mad Fury Road should've kept the film during the day, it looks incredible in all of those shots, but the night time looks fake and takes me out of the film.

@eugene7145 Год назад

Becaz it said 'NOPE' to the night =)

@Anonymous.52 Год назад

"but you didn't had to cut me off"

@luzobsidiana Год назад

Why its so difficult to float in the air when you are under water

@pyit.876 11 месяцев назад

i m amature independent videographer and me projects are zero budget most of the time. I rather risk noises with real light than use low budget lightings that looks obvious(in my own projects of course can't risk in client ones)

@iamchrispaezjr Год назад

The other issue they didn't mention is the most obvious one lol, the CGI. Imagine trying to render in an alien nebulus cloud and you can't see jack sh*t. Lighting is really important in Visual Effects, hence why it's shot in the daytime. Game Of Thrones had it easier compared to House Of Dragons because they could just hide some of the actors playing the skeletons and don't render in effects, for the dragon, they'd need to see it though.

@diegogonzales9653 Год назад

Stanley Kubrick shot scenes with only candle lighting in Barry Lyndon

@derkeheath5172 Год назад

I suspect it worked in that film only because it was so slow paced. I can't imagine an extreme-low light camera like that could work for an action movie. At least not with FILM cameras. I'll admit I'm not sure if that would have ANY effect on digital cameras.

@jamessiewert3561 Год назад

@@derkeheath5172 They also had hundreds of candles in those scenes. It's FAR brighter than moonlight. You still wouldn't have been able to get an exposure with Kubrick's modified lenses. Digital cameras like the a7s series are the only ones that are sensitive enough to be able to capture what the night actually looks like. But there's no camera like that that produces an IMAX quality image.

@thedeeprot Год назад

👍👍👍

@DuncanDonuts119 Год назад

Just spitballing here, but is it maybe because of the sun ?

@JoseFernandez-cd7ew Год назад

How did they shot the same angle with infrared and non-ir?

@SDMasterYoda 11 месяцев назад

People talk about how good the day for night was in Nope, but I disagree; While it's better than many other movies, it was still distracting for me.

@NaturalDivineGoddess 11 месяцев назад

*Uh it wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that IT IS NOT DARK DURING THE DAY??* 🤣🤣

@CriesinShower Год назад

I would imagine because of the sun?

@Greg_Buckingham Год назад

No Helm’s deep clips? Bruh

@2006Mercury Год назад

I liked how the northmen did their nighttime scenes

@massetozacarias5693 Год назад

I use day for night technique because I'm broke af

@hmulford3851 Год назад

Nope was 100% snubbed at the Oscars. At least deserved nominations for cinematography, VFX, original screenplay, sound editing, and even costume design (but contemporary costume design is always snubbed). What do you know, a movie about how black people's accomplishments in Hollywood being overlooked is being overlooked.

@mlw9195 Год назад

Ooop

@HereGoesKevin Год назад

So are Asian-americans and Asian-American films.

@hmulford3851 Год назад

@@HereGoesKevin So true, and I'm glad EEAAO got the recognition it deserved, it was incredible!

@hemoglobbin Год назад

That's all nice but where are the stars? People living in big cities might not be aware of the fact that stars exist and are visible when there are no clouds like everywhere. Even during the full Moon there are many stars in thr sky and I didn't see any on these shots.

@rodleypumpkins4174 Год назад

Ohh I know this one because it’s day time and not night lol.

@PavelKaras Год назад

Great video although I must say your explanation of eyes getting used to low light conditions isn’t correct. The pupils adapt their size within a second or two. It’s the chemical processes inside the light-sensitive cells of the retina that take up to 30 minutes for the eyes to get fully adapted. Astronomers and stargazers know this very well from their experience. Once away from the distracting light sources, it takes 30 minutes to be able to see the faintest stars in the sky.

@DenonBoyofthe21stCentury Год назад

I love how absolutely everyone shitting on day for night in the comments, especially on NOPE, didn’t even notice it was day for night until they saw this video 😂

@wilky1189 Год назад

Next up: why it's so hard to shoot underwater scenes on land

@billkingston4402 Год назад

How about being able to see and hear a film, unlike most of the current movies

@SoloTraceur 8 месяцев назад

Nah, give me the night scenes in Terminator 2 any day, or most 80's movies for that matter.

@Mio248 8 месяцев назад

So how did they do the No Country For Old Men night desert chase scene. Was that at night? Cause I was able to see what was going on. Update: I just rewatched the scene. It looked like that one was shot in the day (early morning with overcast at best). My bad.

@smkowhai Год назад

What is 0:45 from?

@njpofficial Год назад

Can you make a video on the process of making incense

@jacoblane6313 Год назад

Because the sun is up 🙄 I could've told you that

@wiremesh2 Год назад

Wow, RU-vid compression absolutely destroyed this video!

@SoFlyIndustry Год назад

Maybe im just picky, but i feel like its so obvious its day for night in Nope. It doesnt look dark, just tinted. A great example for me is the final scene in Sicario. Beautiful dark

@gerardfarresmataro4040 Год назад

The title?? Isn't obvius that filming a night scene during the day is hard?😂 Im wondering who's asking why

@Catdaddy17 9 месяцев назад

Maybe it’s hard to shoot night scenes during the day because well maybe it’s day time

@zzz78979 4 месяца назад

night too dark i cant see any

@mrblackout22 Год назад

Stuff like this is like the black lines from green screen. We all can see it and know it's a manipulation, but they keep doing it acting like it's too legit to quit lol mean while every movie goer is like "why do they keep making daytime night?"

@mdihero Год назад

RLM taught me never ever shoot day for night

@knl654 Год назад

I actually don’t like scene shot in day and shown as night, there something off about them.

@DynastyUK 5 месяцев назад

Another thing that movies forget is pupil dilation. Night time you gonna have BIG pupils.

@spacetimegeezy 9 месяцев назад

I think it’s the Sun lol

@ultra_cosmic Год назад

What movie is 0:45

@derkeheath5172 Год назад

I'm pretty sure it's from an old Alfred Hitchcock movie, but I can't remember which one.

@richarddecredico6098 Год назад

Day for night is done to save money

@chrisfleming9845 Год назад

did anyone hear the fart reverb sound at 2:58, please someone else tell me I'm not crazy

@R.ely.d.n 10 месяцев назад

They way daylight Works is Very different from the way the lights Work at night. As a digital artist, you learn How to Paint night scenes and It is totally different from day... Thats why It always looks fake when cinema do this.

@wolfie8012 Год назад

I want to watch Nope but I’m afraid. Is it really scary? 😂

@realchezboi Год назад

there’s a mix of definitely scary scenes, and some fun scenes between the main characters, so expect scares but it’s not absolutely dreadful

@Starblockss Год назад

That title lol. Next, why it's so hard to shoot a sunset scene during a hurricane.

@corail53 Год назад

It really isn't that hard and we do it all the time on even the most mundane of crappy tv shows.

@erikm9768 Год назад

1:15 This is no longer true, many modern cameras have sensors that are much more sensitive to light than the human eye. Sony A7s III for example

@kirandeepchakraborty7921 Год назад

The movie script should have been far better though

@derkeheath5172 Год назад

For me, it felt more like an editing issue rather than writing. There were numerous scenes that had weird transitions or felt edited to the point of losing their power. I looked it up and, sure enough, the original cut was longer and the studio insisted Peele cut it down. The Asian Cowboy and film director lost a lot of screen time. Peele's teased a director's cut, but there's never been any confirmation of a release.

@ianfisch7289 6 месяцев назад

The Nope night scenes don't seem very believable though. Maybe not the best example?

@timsullivan4566 Год назад

Jordan Peele has me SO conflicted : sure, film-lovers have gained much from the enormous talent he brings to his work, but this comes only at the LOSS his extraordinary comic performances. So what this really comes down to, is... ...Is having "Nope" really worth giving up Meegan? 🤔🤔🤔

@AlejandroLZuvic Год назад

Why shooting night shots at day is hard? Answer: because it's freaking daytime.

@JYMAHJAMES Год назад

i cant see anything in this video

@mickbanner Год назад

It's still looked fake as "movie nights". Don't particularly mind... but I actually thought Nope was particularly guilty of this look

@TheRedRanger123 Год назад

The biggest giveaway are the shadows. If you don't have a strong, dominant, direct light source like the sun, the shadows will not be that clear and hard. Day for night just sucks and looks bad most of the times. You just get used to this.

@jamessiewert3561 Год назад

The moon produces hard shadows. The amount of people that don't realize this in this comments section is pretty wild.

@regretto Год назад

I still can't believe how incredible this movie is. And the day for night was probably the only thing I wasn't impressed by - I don't think it's done that well here.

@richarddecredico6098 Год назад

?? It is not a good movie

@regretto Год назад

@@richarddecredico6098 it's probably my favorite movie of all time