LED lighting truly is the new frontier for many industries seeking effecting illumination solutions. Clean and bright, these sequential lights offer a wide range of uses, making it a very flexible option for businesses. This type of lighting is so reliable, it’s even widely used by big budget entertainment projects, which are typically on the receiving end of a high degree of public scrutiny.
Recently, LED lights made a huge splash in the filming of one of this year’s most successful major motion pictures: Gravity, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. As this article from Geek.com will show you, Alfonso Cuarón, one of the filmmakers involved in Gravity whose camera work on the set of Children of Men was widely renowned, employed 800,000 LED lights in order to create a fantasy version of outer space.
The linked article above gives a very interesting idea of how precise filming has to be to generate a proper background from LED lights. During the opening sequence, when George Clooney is orbiting around the space station in a jetpack, the actor had to hit his lines to the exact second of filming or the scene had to be reshot.
The “spacebox” created for filming consisted of 196 LED panels, each holding about 5,000 individual lights. These lights were used to simulate the light emanating from stars and reflected sunlight as diffused through space. Although it’s not an accurate representation of what outer space actually looks like to someone actually in orbit, as the above story cites, it does look accurate to an audience and that’s what’s necessary.
LED lighting can help you transform most indoor and outdoor spaces into incredible locations with brilliant splashes of brightness and color. Cosmetically, there are no cleaner or simpler lights to use than strings of these handy bulbs. When you want to learn more about LED solutions that you can implement in your own home or business, call Illuminations USA. We keep Dayton, FL, bright and lit up for the world to see!
*Video courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
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