Nevada Film Office: A cucoloris, or cookie, is a tool used to break up man-made light sources and make them look more natural. It is also used to cut or shape light in order to cast specific shadows. This is extremely useful in creating the illusion that a scene shot in a sound stage was filmed in a completely different location just by casting the right shadows.
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Film lighting, interesting. What I got from this is that a cookie, or cucoloris, is a really big gobo for films. Its used to make set lighting look more natural. I was trying to think about why they wouldn’t just use a gobo of some sort and then I realized that sets don’t have as much space as theater and they don’t tend to hang lights high in the air (that would allow for larger casts of light). Also, they might want to move these around quickly or be able to play with the shapes and positioning of the shadows. They seem pretty easy to make and I liked the little addition of the DIY cookie video in this article. I don’t know if I will personally explore film lighting, but I really enjoy seeing the difference in the two processes and what type of equipment each industry uses. Now i get why they use the cookies of gobos.
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