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Why It's So Difficult To Shoot Night Scenes During The Day (2023x8)

Fecha de emisión: Mar 24, 2023

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."