How To Light A Cyclorama Wall

Cyc walls were first used in television and news and later emerged in photo and video studios.

How to light a cyclorama wall.

Radius the goal is to hide the right angle intersections from wall to floor wall to wall and possibly wall to ceiling with a top radius. How big you make the cove of the cyc will affect how evenly and smoothly the light will fall on it. In theater and film a cyclorama abbreviated cyc in the united states is a large curtain or wall often concave positioned at the back of the apse it often encircles or partially encloses the stage to form a background. Since the cyclorama provides a very smooth.

Thus when the light hits the wall it does not reflect the depth of the background. We ll be detailing how to build a cyc wall for full body photography or video work with three foot curves a 12 foot high wall and 18 feet of bare floor. The concept is that the talent is performing yoga in the middle of a white sweep. A white cyclorama wall or cyc wall or infinite wall is a construction with two planes smoothly merging horizontally and vertically.

Essentially the bigger the curve the easier it is to light. A radius on a cyclorama then is of a circle to cover the horizontal distance from floor to wall or vertical distance from wall to wall in the corners. I want to bring the entire background and floor to a nice white and light the talent in a high key type way. No corners no depth.

A cyc cyclorama or an infinity wall all mean the same thing. It is a huge wall of one color that is built to have no defined corners. I am shooting a yoga video and need some advice on how to light a white cyc wall. Eventually cycs were laid on the surface of the stage to form a curve and the lighting director with proper lighting could eliminate any shadows thus creating an infinity cyc the purpose of a cyc is to create a smooth transition from floor to wall to help eliminate hard shadows at the horizon and allow for an infinitely large set.

How to properly and efficiently light a cyc. A demonstration with altman lighting and loyola marymount university. Youll see the talents en.