DMG Case Studies — Films & Commercials Lit With DMG (AU & NZ)
On set with DMG.
Real productions, real cinematographers, real light.
How working DPs and gaffers use DMG on features, commercials, short films and car shoots — each shown with its original credits, courtesy of Rosco Spectrum.
What designers & DPs have done with DMG
International Rosco reference projects, each with its original design credits. Courtesy of Rosco Spectrum.
Feature · MINI + SL1
Dark Asset (2023)
For the action thriller Dark Asset, DP Eduardo Ramirez lit fight scenes by hanging a DMG MINI at one end and an SL1 at the other, both warm against a cool ambient, to give movement contrast and keep faces cleanly exposed. A single SL1 was powerful enough to key three actors with varied skin tones at once, and he used the myMIX app to colour-match a practical monitor to the SL1 on the fly.
Short film · SL1 MIX
“The Producer”
For an 80s-styled interrogation scene, DP Tanner Short used a single SL1 MIX as fill, accent and in-shot practical — praising its “chameleon-like” versatility and the pleasing skin tones it gave on RED at 4300K (high R9). The lightweight, app-controlled fixture kept stands out of the anamorphic frame and needed only minor grading.
Commercial · DASH + MINI + SL1
Palacio de Hierro — “Festival de Belleza”
DP Alberto Ulloa built this beauty commercial around DMG in tight locations: a wall-to-wall MINI MIX with SnapGrid for soft front light, an SL1 MIX SnapBag backlight, an SL1 book-light for a warm cosmetic feel, and a DASH as eyelight and hidden uplight — controlled remotely via the myMIX app.
Car shoots · SL1 / MINI
Battery-run light inside moving cars
Across features and series — including Paris chase sequences on “3 Days To Kill” (DP Thierry Arbogast, gaffer Gregory Fromentin) and the crime series “Salamander” — slim SL1 and MINI fixtures ran on V-mount batteries inside cars, dimming to nearly 1% with almost no green/magenta shift for believable night driving light.
What keeps coming up
True skin tone
High R9 colour and pleasing faces straight out of camera.
Source Match
The myMIX app captures a practical or monitor and matches it.
Slim & battery
Rigs inside cars and tight sets, run off V-mount batteries.
Deep, clean dimming
Down to ~1% with negligible colour shift.
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