From the course: Creating a Short Film: 07 Cinematography

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Coloring light with gels

Coloring light with gels

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 07 Cinematography

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Coloring light with gels

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- We talked earlier about the color temperature of light being one of its most essential properties. Well what if you want to change that? What if you have an orangy, tungsten light that you want to make a daylight, balance light or vice versa? The fix is almost always gels. These are semi-transparent sheets of a plastic type material that you put in front of lights to tint their color. So if you wanted to color correct an orangy light to a daylight one, you'd use a blue gel. We call these type of gels CTB, short for color temperature blue. If you wanted a light to be more orange, you'd use CTO, or color temperature orange. You know there are tons of other colors out there as well. They're not as common but they're out there, and they can be fun to use. Like CTS, which is color temperature straw, creates a little bit more of a yellow color than CTO. There's also plus green which is green and minus green which is magenta. Now here's Chris Taylor setting up for the council scene. What…

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