Have you watched the series Star Trek on TV? Have you seen a Star Wars movie? Have you seen a sci-fi motion picture or television series involving outer space? Have you questioned how they made the scenes flying in outer space? Most of the visual effects for these programs were filmed in a white cyc studio using infinity cycs. The infinity cyc is curved at the bottom where the wall and floor join together creating a visible effect of limitless space. A white cyclorama is use on stage to create an illusion of sky.

 

Star Trek is a good example showing the starship Enterprise flying through limitless outer space surrounded by stars from a distance and the cameras zooming in on the starship. At the end it would show the starship corporation in space and the cameras would zoom away from the starship as the show ended. These visual effects were done using a white cyc studio. The model of the starship company was postponed from the ceiling in the center of a white cyclorama stage.

What makes a good white cyc studio? The white cyclorama needs to be well created and free from : visible failings, seams, dust, visual corners, and sharp angles that cause shadows. The white cyclorama should have : 1 ) Efficient space for zoom shots and to avoid crowding, complicated camera angles, and make allowance for proper lighting arrangements. 2 ) A high ceiling to prevent tough camera angles, and lighting issues. Three ) 2 or more cyc walls to film to film against to avoid filming limitations. 4 ) Efficient time for setup, filming and take down if renting a white cyc studio.

Some film studios don’t have their own white cyc studio, so when they need to use a white cyc studio they’re going off lot and rent one out of many studios in LA. There are a number of studios in and around LA let us take a look at what a couple of studios feature. White cyc studios in LA should feature : one ) whisper quiet air-con. 2 ) Three-thousand square feet. 3 ) Ground level access. Four ) Sixteen and a half feet to lighting grid. 5 ) 2 white cyclorama walls seventy-feet in size. 6 ) Complete lighting and grip. 7 ) Free V / O booth and makeup room. 8 ) The studio will provide any needed production apparatus.

Other great studios that you can rent out features : one ) 80 linear feet of shoot able white cyclorama. 2 ) twenty ton of grip, lighting, stedicam, jibs, dollies. 3 ) three white cyclorama walls. 4 ) Motion control setup. Five ) four modifying bays. 6 ) 3D animation / compositing. 7 ) Pre to post production crews. 8 ) Film, video, and post production equipment. Nine ) Film, HD, and SD camera packages HD cameras. 10 ) Mini thirty-five adapter from P and S Technik thirty-five mm Zeiss PL, F-one point 3 speed lens eighteen, 25, and thirty-five, 50, eighty-five. Eleven ) 25 foot Stanton Jimmy Jib with Remote Head and Dollies. 12 ) cinema Products Provid Steadicam for sixteen mm film, HD, DV-Cam and DV cameras.

 

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