20 Things You Somehow Missed In Mad Max: Fury Road

16. The Night Scenes Were Filmed In Broad Daylight

Mad Max Fury Road
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Some of Fury Road's most visually evocative scenes are those which take place at night, where the Wasteland is bathed in an almost sickly blue hue.

Yet this wasn't achieved by shooting at night with fancy camera filters, but by employing old-school "day-for-night" shooting techniques - that is, filming the scene during the day and then re-grading its colour timing in post-production.

By intentionally over-exposing the image, Miller was able to extensively re-tool its colour timing in editing, and the result is a stark look totally unlike the white-hot oranges that define the bulk of the movie.

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