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Marty Longrie December 26th, 2006 12:46 PM

Film Studio Ceiling Color
 
Is there a standard color for film studio ceilings?

Andzei Matsukevits December 26th, 2006 01:47 PM

all studios where i've been had neutral color ceiling, like grey or white...

Jeff Chandler December 26th, 2006 06:03 PM

Black is nice.

Allan Black December 26th, 2006 07:57 PM

Oohh schucks Jeff......er where was I.....oh yeah; most I've seen have sound tiles up there, light shades of grey or tan.

Jeff Chandler December 26th, 2006 11:41 PM

Lol, Allan. Many of the studios I have been to in my area have black everything, with provisions for green or blue screen of course.

Brian Drysdale December 27th, 2006 05:13 AM

Most film studios I've been in have unpainted ceilings (they're pretty high). However, walls are often painted black or with the sound insulation left an unpainted a natural dark brown colour. Sound stage ceilings also have the sound insulation, but it's pretty industrial looking.

However, if you're converting a lower ceiling area, I'd tend towards black to avoid reflections and unwanted fill from stray light.

Dan Brown January 1st, 2007 06:45 PM

Agreed, dark neutral colors allow the shooter to have greater control of the light. The bigger, the better too.

Bill Davis January 3rd, 2007 12:41 PM

Another vote for black.
 
If you CAN paint any surface black, I'd do it.

Yeah, it looks ugly in daytime. But if you ever have to shoot anything reflective like tabletop glassware, chrome or god forbid a big shiny metal object like a CAR in the studio - you'll appreciate the fact that any reflective surface on the subject with an angle of incidence that shows the ceiling will reflect black.

I promise I won't make any snarky comments here about sweaty, bald CEOs...


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