How To Light A Cyclorama Wall

A demonstration with altman lighting and loyola marymount university.

How to light a cyclorama wall.

Eventually cycs were laid on the surface of the stage to form a curve and the lighting director with proper lighting could eliminate any shadows thus creating an infinity cyc the purpose of a cyc is to create a smooth transition from floor to wall to help eliminate hard shadows at the horizon and allow for an infinitely large set. Since the cyclorama provides a very smooth. I am shooting a yoga video and need some advice on how to light a white cyc wall. How big you make the cove of the cyc will affect how evenly and smoothly the light will fall on it.

Cyc walls were first used in television and news and later emerged in photo and video studios. A radius on a cyclorama then is of a circle to cover the horizontal distance from floor to wall or vertical distance from wall to wall in the corners. A cyc cyclorama or an infinity wall all mean the same thing. How to properly and efficiently light a cyc.

Youll see the talents en. I want to bring the entire background and floor to a nice white and light the talent in a high key type way. It is a huge wall of one color that is built to have no defined corners. Thus when the light hits the wall it does not reflect the depth of the background.

It was popularized in the german theater of the 19th century and continues in common usage today in theaters throughout the world. What the cyclorama wall is. The concept is that the talent is performing yoga in the middle of a white sweep. A white cyclorama wall or cyc wall or infinite wall is a construction with two planes smoothly merging horizontally and vertically.

We ll be detailing how to build a cyc wall for full body photography or video work with three foot curves a 12 foot high wall and 18 feet of bare floor. No corners no depth. In theater and film a cyclorama abbreviated cyc in the united states is a large curtain or wall often concave positioned at the back of the apse it often encircles or partially encloses the stage to form a background.