Stewart CohenDirector/DP/Photographer, Stewart Cohen Pictures · Director/DP/Photographer @ Stewart Cohen Pictures | Film Production

Turning a Hotel Room Into a CLUB with Lighting 🤯

15 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this behind‑the‑scenes segment from Stewart Cohen’s YouTube video, the hosts discuss the final shot of a four‑day shoot where they transformed a hotel room into a club atmosphere using moody lighting. They reference a scouting photograph taken earlier, note that the scene was captured at a 45‑degree angle which created a natural color divide on the wall, and describe how they improvised a backdrop by ‘painting’ with light. The conversation highlights the creative decision to use the angle and light‑painting to achieve a striking, club‑like visual effect without a traditional backdrop.

In this segment, Jason talks about moody lighting and how cool it is to create. I will preface this with, this was the last shot of a 4-day shoot. And if you look at that bottom, the photograph on the bottom left, that's a scouting pic. There's not a lot going on there.
This was the shot, I don't know if you remember, I came up to you and I was like, hey, can we just like, let's, let's, let's paint. And the fun thing about this, I don't know if you noticed this, but Because we were shooting on an angle, at a 45-degree angle, we have a perfect divide on that wall that shows color, color, almost like in like photography, like you use like a black, like a backdrop for it.
Oh yeah, we kind of made our own.