Usually means: Filming night scenes during daytime.
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General (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. day for night: Wiktionary
  2. Day for Night (Spock's Beard album), Day for Night (The Tragically Hip album), Day for Night (Tragically Hip), Day for Night (Tragically Hip album), Day for Night (festival), Day for Night (film), Day-for-night, Day for night (disambiguation), Day for night: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. day for night: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (day for night)

noun:  (film) A cinematographic technique in which a crew films in a high-contrast situation, typically in the early morning or late afternoon, with a blue filter, causing the scene to look as if it were shot in moonlight.
adverb:  (cinematography) In the daytime, with a blue filter, causing the scene to look as if it were shot in moonlight.

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