Lighting

Lighting
The first day of filming we found we had some issues for example; we started a lot later than we wanted to due to a miss communication with the time people were supposed to arrive on set. When we started to film we found that the lighting was not to our original plan due to the overcast skies, we were depending on natural light for our shoot. However, it has worked in our favour because the dim light and overcast sky adds to the almost aggressive and oppressive, stalker feel to our video.
On the second day of shooting we had a much more prompt start and we got some of our best footage on this day. We used Sid’s meadow as our location for our performance scene. We shot this scene at dusk which is a period of soft lighting and long shadows. This gave are actor’s features unique definition. It also created the feeling that time was ebbing away giving the performance as sense of progressing. However, it was not easy to do as at dusk the light was varying which made it difficult to have good continuity.
On the last day of our shoot the light was quite varied. At the beginning of shooting there was very good light however at the end it had become very cloudy and started to rain. Having said that it did work in our favour because we were shooting scenes in which it was meant to be the dawn. In order to create this effect we closed the curtains in the room we were shooting in and because it was very sunny outside it gave the effect of first light coming through the curtains.

Posted by Tom Elwes