A design approach to lighting and colour rendering in indoor sets

Indoor lighting and colour design practice for television and movie industries evolved in the decades with the assumption that the real-time observer is the camera instead of the human being. Nevertheless, even modern cameras do not have the human visual system’s dynamic, adaptation, and cognitive correction. Although technology evolutions of cameras allow regulatory actions to control colour parameters, there are still open issues in this sector. Solid-State lighting has dramatically enriched the colour creativity for directors of photography, and numerous ways of standardising colour coordinates have been proposed to have a common vocabulary. However, this has also led to the rise of new technical and organisational issues. Different cameras capture colours illuminated by LED sources, slightly different from each other. This paper aims not to cover the scientific aspects of the lighting of indoor sets but to collect some of the information relating to the operations design on light and its chromaticity under a design method approach.