Test Footage Before Shooting (Seeing How The Makeup Looks On-Cam)

Before shooting we applyed make up to our actor, but to ensure the realism of the makeup I decided to see how the make up would look on camera in a variety of settings. We went out side to see how it looked. Clearly, if you watch over the footage it looks rather false and unbelievable outside. The reason we came to this conclusion was that the 'blood' which was applyed only had one tone. In horror movies blood never only has one tone, it has about 3 or 4, which led us into the next testing footage, where the make up artist applyed more tone to the hand.


I also noticed that when shooting the darker area of the footage had like TV flicker line running up and down it. Maybe because the lighting was low ? or there was something in the way ?

Through doing research I found out that :
"In fact, you see the "light's refresh rate", specially with old fluorescent lights (fluorescent lights or with sodium lights in industrial environment for ex.) so you see the light in its "OFF phase" and sometimes in its "ON phase".

Over 100 Hz, the "camera capturing time" is too short to see the light always ON, like our eyes.

If you use cine specialized HMI lights, or incandescent lights, you can work with higher shutters."

It's basically telling us the type of light used within the building was causing it to flicker, if the lights were more recent such a thing would not be present.


Information taken from :
http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/canon-eos-7d-hd/474495-flicker-7d-50hz-country-shutter-speeds.html