Recording video in the nighttime hours can often be a difficult task — one that can quickly push up costs in a production budget. Whether it’s booking problems with locations, actor and crew availability or a tight production schedule, sometimes shooting nighttime scenes during the daylight hours is necessary.
Day for night production has a long cinematic history, going back to the silent film era. Feature films like Casablanca used day for night shooting, as do far more modern productions. The trick is to make a daylight scene look like it took place at night.
