![]() ![]() We used 256 ARRI 300-watt Fresnels in two concentric circles. It lit the actors on the platform - designed to look like the sun shining through a skylight. O’Leary explained the setup: This light ring was used in the office of Niander Wallace, played by Jared Leto. Image Blade Runner 2049 Ring Light via ARRI. Here is a look at one of the lighting packages: 256 ARRI 300-watt Fresnels connected to two rings to simulate the sun and the sun’s shadows. Having such a top-notch rigging crew and top-notch programmers meant that dimming control was not at all difficult, despite the huge lighting package. They were without doubt the best crew I’ve worked with, apart from my regular New York crew, who I’ve been with for decades. In total we had a lighting crew of around 20. We often had up to six stages working at Origo Studios and three at Korda Studios, in various stages of rigging, shooting and de-rigging. I had nine weeks of prep time for a shooting schedule of around 90 days. His team of 20 crew members assembled massive ring lights on multiple locations: In an interview with ARRI, gaffer Bill O’Leary talked about the naturalistic look of Blade Runner 2049. Image Denis Villeneuve via Columbia Pictures. And the idea was to play with water with caustic patterns to evoke different emotions. ![]() Denis wanted the main space to be a big platform in the middle of a pond (based on an architectural design we’d seen). We thought about an artificial world in which lighting moves like sunlight. There was one particular cathedral that’s a big concrete block with two skylights that lets light in a most interesting way. It was about trying to find Wallace’s character and Denis and I spent a lot of time talking about the look of the interior… We looked at a lot of references of the way architects use light in modern buildings, and especially the way light falls on some of these big concrete structures. In an interview with IndieWire, Deakins recalls the following: When it came to the look of Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins spent quite a bit of time deciding the right atmosphere. We added some bounce from shot to shot, usually dropping muslin from the rig itself, but that was all the additional lighting we used. I was only shooting at a base of 2.6 on 5218 with a little high speed work for which we raised the intensity of the light. The total output would have been about 17Kw but as the lamp was dimmed down to about 40% it was not all that intense. This rig was suspended from chain motors at an average of 20′ above the centre of the space. This was a light I had made for a Synagogue location in A Serious Man… We had a large number of shots to shoot in this particular location so my problem was to light the space in such a way as I wouldn’t take much time relighting for every angle. It was controlled by a dimmer system and a skirt of ultrabounce acts as a cut as well as an interior reflector. The largest hexagon is 15′ across and the smallest 3’6″ across. This was a light I had made which consists of 5 concentric hexagonal aluminum strips holding 200 odd 75 watt household bulbs. When we last talked about these ring lights, Deakins had shared the following on the massive ring light that his grips and gaffers built for A Serious Man… They are really simple things though: some wooden rings of varying diameter with sockets for household bulbs every 5″, some straight wooden strips with similarly spaced sockets, steel hoops with evenly spaced 200/300 watt halogen bulbs, sockets grouped like the fingers of your hand which also take 200 watt halogen bulbs, a household socket with the socket for a 200 watt halogen bulb behind it etc etc. Before talking about the lighting of Blade Runner 2049, let’s look back at Deakins talking about ring lights: Ring lights have become one of Deakins’s signature tools, and on each film, the rings get bigger and bigger. In a previous article, 5 DIY Tutorials and Gear Hacks for Filmmakers, we covered building a Roger Deakins-style ring light. Then we will take a look at how Deakins shot the film, as well as a few new tutorials you can check out to create your own looks inspired by Blade Runner 2049. In this article, we are going to take a quick look back at Roger Deakins’s previous work with ring lights - and how he built a massive lighting rig for Blade Runner 2049. Take a look at the lighting cinematographer Roger Deakins designed to capture the visually stunning footage in Blade Runner 2049. ![]()
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