"Velours Rouge"

The film opened up with two of the main characters in a café. It's one of the few scenes we would shoot at night, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to get some deeper contrast than what we would see in many of the later scenes. We had

Due to some unpredicted scheduling constraints we ended up shooting bits and pieces of this scene at three different times during the shoot. There were a few things that I always kept consistent to ensure that everything cuts together seamlessl

This was a fun scene because we got to introduce the eccentric French woman character (Christelle) who would come into our main character's (Luke) home and throw him for a spin. We wanted to set up the scene as if anything could be on the

It doesn't take much experience in making films to realize how absolutely critical the inserts are. Christelle has aspirations of owning her own bar someday, so she gets straight to work practicing mixing her own cocktails once she moves in. We spen

This is the scene when Luke finally tries Christelle's Velours Rouge cocktail and we start to see the connection between them forming. The great challenge of photographing this film was that the vast majority of the script takes place in this room o

This is the scene when Luke discovers that Christelle is actually an escort and finds himself trying to rescue her from one of her clients before he realizes that Christelle doesn't need any rescuing. We did this all in one shot and it really h

This was the only scene we shot in the bedroom, so we had the luxury of being able to use more color to bring out Christelle's character. I also warmed up the lighting just a little because from the beginning we always wanted to paint Christelle as

Using our single lighting rig in this room, we were able to get many different kinds of looks out of the light. For the actress playing Christelle I wanted to keep finding new ways to light her, while still keeping the lighting beautiful and fl

In this scene is a perfect example of how the lighting setup gave us extra flexibility. We needed to be able to get wide shots like this one, and some much wider, that didn't allow for much space for placing light stands. Also after shooting this wi

The film opened up with two of the main characters in a café. It's one of the few scenes we would shoot at night, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to get some deeper contrast than what we would see in many of the later scenes. We had

Due to some unpredicted scheduling constraints we ended up shooting bits and pieces of this scene at three different times during the shoot. There were a few things that I always kept consistent to ensure that everything cuts together seamlessl

This was a fun scene because we got to introduce the eccentric French woman character (Christelle) who would come into our main character's (Luke) home and throw him for a spin. We wanted to set up the scene as if anything could be on the

It doesn't take much experience in making films to realize how absolutely critical the inserts are. Christelle has aspirations of owning her own bar someday, so she gets straight to work practicing mixing her own cocktails once she moves in. We spen

This is the scene when Luke finally tries Christelle's Velours Rouge cocktail and we start to see the connection between them forming. The great challenge of photographing this film was that the vast majority of the script takes place in this room o

This is the scene when Luke discovers that Christelle is actually an escort and finds himself trying to rescue her from one of her clients before he realizes that Christelle doesn't need any rescuing. We did this all in one shot and it really h

This was the only scene we shot in the bedroom, so we had the luxury of being able to use more color to bring out Christelle's character. I also warmed up the lighting just a little because from the beginning we always wanted to paint Christelle as

Using our single lighting rig in this room, we were able to get many different kinds of looks out of the light. For the actress playing Christelle I wanted to keep finding new ways to light her, while still keeping the lighting beautiful and fl

In this scene is a perfect example of how the lighting setup gave us extra flexibility. We needed to be able to get wide shots like this one, and some much wider, that didn't allow for much space for placing light stands. Also after shooting this wi

Directed by Ichien Chu
Still on the rebound from a bad breakup, Luke opens up his spare room to a cocktail-making, eccentric French woman, who completely changes his world once he finds out she's secretly an escort.

Red Epic 5K | Angenieux Optimo, Zeiss CP. 2 Lenses