Lighting tests and Trouble shooting.

A few days ago me Joe and Jordan sat down and had a little chat about the storyboard for the fight scene, we decided it would come together more in the edit but did note that we should get: POV shots from all characters, profile shots of the fight, blood splatter cutaways, a wide shot and a shot of Jenny crying. We also talked about a few lighting plans for the rooms we will be shooting in. Finally when it got dark at 5.30 we went to our exterior locations to see if they were well lit enough for night shoots or if we would need to light them ourselves or even set it in daytime.

This first few images is the Won Ting Chinese take away we plan to shoot some of the stalking at. I played around with the ISO a little bit to try and get the right amount of light but it was quite dark. We are hoping and thinking that when we shoot there will be no other people around so the movement of the characters in the static shot will draw the eye of the audience.

This viedo shows the kind of motion that is visible. Although there are a lot of people around it is clear that the characters would be visible. 

The tunnel is the other location we looked at, the lights are dim but the gaps in them create a really nice effect we want to keep, we decided despite the darkness and possible gain in the image it would be best no to compromise the lighting pattern by spotlighting any of the characters in the tunnel.

These videos show a rough but realistic example of what the final image will be like without lighting.

The rest of the images are tests to see what the light is like in the light and dark sections separately on different ISO's.

I personally like the images where, when in the dark, the characters cannot be seen at all, the effect this will give will be that the following character will light up when the other two go dark and vice versa. However the problem with this is that when in the light they are still dark, also narratively our stalker, Dean, will be wearing a black hoodie and therefore be difficult to see either way.

Its a fine line to tread but I think that we compromise and end up with something really nice.

Trouble shooting!

Whilst the second reccie went really well and we were all geared up for shooting I got an email from our actress Kenzzie, unfortunately she is ill and in hospital so she wont be able to appear in the film.... We had no specific back up so the hunt for actress' began again but to no avail to date and we NEED to shoot this weekend. I think that if we can't find anyone our editor Amy should step in, we have been desperately looking but its not going well so I think its a nessecary contingency. Jordan disagrees with me and doesnt think that she is right for the part but I feel that Jenny isn't that important to the success of the film, its all about Dean, that what we need to get right, not Jenny.