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Day-for-night is a term used for describing when film crews shoot scenes scripted for night but shot during the day. Day-for-night is a time consuming and labor intensive choice for producers and only used when scheduling or location restrictions do not allow actual night shooting. When shooting interiors day-for-night on location, grips need to cut all the daylight entering onto set. If the scene is "blocked" or staged away from windows or other openings to the outside, the light may be simply blacked out with cloth or plastic sheeting. However when windows or doors are seen from camera, these openings must be tented to allow some exterior dressing to be seen. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...

Day for night, also known as nuit américaine ("American night"), is the name of a cinematographic technique to simulate a night scene. Mainly intended to avoid costly (and technically challenging) night filming, the scenes were instead shot during the day, with special blue filters and under-exposed film creating the illusion of darkness or moonlight. Lighting the characters two to three stops more then the background also helps the effect, but doing so require powerful lights to compete with the sun. Many of the night scenes in "Jaws" were done this way, for example. However, the technique disappeared with improvements in film technology and increasing viewer expectations. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... It has been suggested that Orca (Jaws boat) be merged into this article or section. ...

While never fully successful in creating "realistic" night, the special visual style of the American night nowadays has many fans among historic movie buffs, thanks to its frequent use in early B-movies, Westerns, and film noir. Day-for-night shooting seems to have become more common in recent years which goes against the trends of a decade ago. The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ...

The title of François Truffaut's film Day for Night (1973) is a reference to this technique, since the film is about the process of moviemaking. François Roland Truffaut (French IPA: ) (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. ... La Nuit américaine is a 1973 French film directed by François Truffaut. ...