Shoot Day: Lighting

On the day, we wanted to be creative with the lighting, so we used extra lighting to show reinforce the idea that it was daylight and so we placed a daylight blue gel in front a basic fresnel light. We positioned this behind the wall, so it could fall towards the padlock of the door; this helped to add shadow to the dark door. We also wanted the actor to get a sense of uplifting, slight positive hope.

We also felt the impression of the room being a cell wasn’t very clear, so we experimented with a metal bar and put it to one side and put a light behind it to allow the bar shadows to project onto the wall inside the confined small room. We wanted it to look like a jail door. However, this didn’t work as the lighting wasn’t strong enough and the sense of claustrophobia was lost so we didn’t use it.