Category: Lighting
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Creating A Classical Hollywood Look
I spent my summer developing a look I will soon use in a narrative piece I nicknamed “50s French Film”. The key characteristics of the look are a monochromatic presentation and a classic cinemascope aspect ratio of 2.55:1. I was inspired by various French films of the 1950s that were shot in black and white that…
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Exterior Lighting Tests
Some recent exterior lighting tests I did.
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As We Were – Living Room Scenes
There were similar lighting setups for a few scenes set in the living room, particularly the two scenes, that were shot consecutively, which I have broken down below. In the living room scene where the characters return from shoplifting, the cinematographer and director provided me with a few shots from the film ‘A Thousand and…
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As We Were – Studio Setups
All scenes in the children’s den in ‘As We Were’ were filmed in a studio to create an artificial and dream-like atmosphere, making the children’s safe space feel disconnected from reality. This meant that all light in the scene would have to be created. To set up a scene set at night, I used big…
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As We Were – Creating Daylight
After a slow first day of production on my final student film I worked on, ‘As We Were’, my group asked if I knew any lighting tips, which I told them I did, and I gained an extra role of doing the lighting on the short film to help speed up production by shortening setup…