Go behind the scenes of Ballad of a Small Player with Oscar award-winning Director of Photography James Friend, ASC, BSC, as he breaks down the many challenges and opportunities of shooting in and around Macau casinos for the Netflix dark comedy.
Friend and his lighting team came to rely on several LED lighting tools from their primarily Aputure-based kit. To get around the strict rules of the casino environments, they made frequent use of the INFINIMAT 20×20, which could be easily set up and moved to provide intense walls of soft light, or broken down into INFINIMAT 8x8s as needed.
