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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter steveo Start date Aug 14, The answer is for contrast. A black asphalt street at night will not provide an image that a camera can capture. The camera would only capture a dark image, since only your eyes are adjusted enough to tell the difference between the street and the dark surroundings.
The water is used with ambient lighting to help the camera capture an image that can be used for post-production touch up. I'm not an expert with this at all, but I've done enough photography and video editing to know this much. Because dry streets look boring. Light bounces off wet streets very nicely, especially at night. It gives some more depth to images, and the wetness makes a street that probably has several patches of asphalt or something else look more uniform, i.
Sometimes you are lucky and there are a lot of hydrants in an area, if not you call the local fire department or city cleaning department to do the wet down for you. Click to expand I wanted to post that! From a cinematographers perspective, wet streets look purdy. Part III , Why are movie roads all wet?
Why are movie roads all wet? Part III? Can a topic on an internet forum even have a sequel, or a remake? Movies can be remade just as well for that! Why not internet topics? Several theories were thrown up at the time, ranging from the aesthetic value of all those pretty lights to the practical need of getting extra light onto the 35 mm film - to trigger those lazy grains of silver into action.
But as I listen to a yet another song on the radio with the lead vocal electronically clipped and the base cut out, I realise the answer to the great wet roads enigma. Fashion, the fashion of the time steers the look of things. Innovative artists use a particular technique to create novelty and convey meaning… then as soon as you can say "Batman Returns" every other contemporary artist jumps onto the bandwagon. Shortly thereafter that technique is adopted into the grammar of that particular medium.
Will I use wet roads in my cinematographic excursions? You betcha! Because all light has it's place on film, even the reflected stuff, the result is similar but strangly different from the initial image. Last edited: Aug 19, They look better visually, give it more texture and reflection.
Don't think it's anything more than that. I'm with you, "looking cool" is a great reson to capture an image. What about the glass of water in "Inception That would cause a problem in editing trying to cut between the two. I figured it had something to do with either editing or contrast or something like that, but that was purely a guess.
I had no idea that this was done. Seems a bit extreme and would introduce more problems than not. Nice post Jackdeth. Fundamentally, the practice started as a lighting technique to achieve a nightime effect.
The idea is to fill your composition with large areas of blackness while at the same time countering it with very small bits of overexposed brightness.
In practical terms, you rotate the keylight around the subject so that rather than being frontal it is now a backlight, so now you can maximise the little kicks you get from light sources reflecting on highly specular surfaces - hence the wetted roads. So the next time you see a night scene, as well as observing the wet roads, you might also care to note that the keylight is now behind the subject anywhere from directly behind to a 90 deg.
I was thinking that they are trying to cool things and make director shooting less. I remember that Taxi Driver used wet downs quite dramatically. Maybe its because we have no water. Why are roads on TV or in movies always wet?? General Discussion. Szos UTC 1. Or is it something as simple as the fact that cars tend to stand out more if the road is wet? I figure there are some people in the industry here and they might have a clue.
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