10/02/2026
gives us a detailed breakdown of how they lit this scene:
How we lit this project with DP:
Our two challenges for this short 8 hour day were lighting a stationary ambulance and a moving passenger vehicle in a studio.
The ambulance part was fairly straightforward. We have utilised an Aputure 600C pro with a LightDome150 as our key, using LEE 652 urban sodium. We had a backlight, a NOVA panel bouncing into a styro in the back compartment, hitting the driver with a nice soft wrap from behind. Another NOVA P600C was used as the blue strobe effect from a 45 degree angle slightly above eyeline.
The second part was the tricky one, filming a moving car. Our starting point was from pitch black, so that we could dial in every effect one by one without stepping into chaos.
We started with the 600C and the light dome, using a randomised (2s-4.6s pulse), on 6500K + 1/2 green.
The second part was a NOVA P600C on a desaturated red setting, also pulsing, mimicking braking cars and passing streetlights in front.
From camera side, we used a line consisting of 8 Astera Titan tubes, running a simple one color chase with LEE 652.
The cherry on top was an additional NOVA directly from behind, hitting the rear view mirror and reflecting 6500K white onto the driver’s eyeline. I have done this effect manually from time to time on the sidus link console page to mimic cars pulling up behind the driver.
We had a few LS60X spotlights randomly shining onto the windows and windshield, just to add a more organic feeling by introducing more changes to the luminescent environment.
All the projections were done with a semi-translucent screen and a high power projector. We matched our light colors to the projection in real time.
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