Over a long weekend we created a short film, titled 'The Window' to practice the techniques that we will be using in our final film, particularly lighting.
For most of the film, we used a set up like this.
We made a DIY light diffuser by cutting both sides from an old tin, and covering the front with kitchen roll. We then put this over the bulb on our clamp light to create a softer light, as the naked bulb was far to bright and casting shadows from the shape of the bulb onto the scene. We opted to using only one light, as it was difficult for us to operate with any more as there was only 2 of us working on the film. We also began to develop a style of noir lighting which was easy to do with one light, although it will be much better when we are using 2 lights se we can use a back light as well as a key light.
We decided to write a very simple plot so we could focus on the production and post production (lighting and cinematography in particular) to practice for our final film, rather than spending a long time writing, storyboarding etc.
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