How to achieve this yellow background lighting

[Linda Barzini]

How would you light this scene to get this in camera? It looks like a bunch of diffused tungsten lighting in the background facing the camera shot wide open with a long lens, but I'm not sure how to get the whole background with this yellow tint for a night scene. Would the guy in the mask be lit with tungsten or daylight? We will be limited to Lowell DP fresnels, Astras (daylight with gels), and incandescent lights 500W with white diffusion umbrellas.

Or

Could this be achieved by setting the color balance really warm and using daylight balanced lights on the talent?

Or

Was a back lit fog machine used to create the general warm background diffusion?

 

[Mario Gonsalves]

Fog, + it looks like the main source is just that center light behind the subject.

The fog will diffuse the light and fill in the scene like your example.

 

[Gunther Meisse]

Subject is lit with 5600 and the background is 3200 degrees with a little fog to soften it up.

 

[Ulf Krentz]

Linda,
If you don´t have any daylight sources in the background just light it with your tungsten lights and set the camera to daylight balance or slightly lower. For the front light I´d use half CTB on tungsten or a daylight source with a light CTO. This small color shift and he fog surely helps this scene.

Cheers
Ulf

 

[Russ Fill]

Do you know if there is a fire in the back ground? that might explain the fog or smoke feeling,,,, or a little bee smoke/fog machine. Looks like an exterior shot. With the subject and the way the background actors are in a circle it seems like they are around a fire??
A tungsten with maybe 1/4 CTO would really warm it up the back ground, and then just balance the camera to around 3200k or a little lower, and light the subject in front with tungsten with no CTO on it or maybe even as ULF said a little or 1/4 or 1/2 CTB just to create the cooler feel of the subject. Back ground might be just a regular incandescent light bulb on the ground, but Im still feeling fire, and the subject a tungsten light maybe a Dido or a Arri 150 with a 200 bulb in it..

 

[Aaron Lochert]

Do you know if there is a fire in the back ground? that might explain the fog or smoke feeling,,,, or a little bee smoke/fog machine. Looks like an exterior shot. With the subject and the way the background actors are in a circle it seems like they are around a fire??
A tungsten with maybe 1/4 CTO would really warm it up the back ground, and then just balance the camera to around 3200k or a little lower, and light the subject in front with tungsten with no CTO on it or maybe even as ULF said a little or 1/4 or 1/2 CTB just to create the cooler feel of the subject. Back ground might be just a regular incandescent light bulb on the ground, but Im still feeling fire, and the subject a tungsten light maybe a Dido or a Arri 150 with a 200 bulb in it..

It's fire. Shot at 1:25:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J33S2HC8xA

 

[Russ Fill]

Thanks Aaron, seemed larger than just a regular light and smoke. Thats a crazy movie...