Deuceofspades
Veteran
OK, it was my first attempt at filming with my letus Extreme and my HVX200 and my first attempt at filming a scene period. It was also my very first attempt at being the DP.
Leave it to me to also pick the hardest scene from the short to start with :thumbup:.
I wanted the set dark, dramatic, only the kid's face was ever shown and lit while the alcoholic abusive father was nothing more but a menacing, faceless shadow... Zak's little room is also his hell. I hope I conveyed it through the images and lighting.
I must warn you that some of the images are a bit disturbing.
The one thing I see that I need to fix next time is the overall red flesh tones. This was due, I believe, to the fact that I do not yet have a full set of pro, daylight balanced lights, and currently using what I can afford, a mixture of lowell lights and garage flood lights. I will get daylight balance hallogen bulbs for them tomorrow. Hopefully it will help.
Note that I used incidental lights but the light on the kid's face actually came from the keylight which was a 500K Lowell Omni set on soft focus, but otherwise a hard light, with barn doors closed to keep everything in the dark but the kid. I did not use a fill light or even a bounce. there was a slight fill from the incidental lights, which had been dimmed as far down as possible within them looking "lit".
The blue blinds effect was done with a 250K garage floodlight, with CTB gel, through a $5 air condition small metal vent, attached to a microphone stand (hey whatever works, beggars can't be choosers).
In this shot I wanted both to be mere shadows against the blue background:
This the last shot of the kid running down the staircase and running away. At the top of staircase, you can see the blue bedroom and the silhouette of the drunk dad. The key light was set so that it only lit Zak's face as he was about halfway down the stairs and while he yelled: "I HATE YOU" to his father.
PS: Worry not about Zak, he does find his happy ending in the story.
Leave it to me to also pick the hardest scene from the short to start with :thumbup:.
I wanted the set dark, dramatic, only the kid's face was ever shown and lit while the alcoholic abusive father was nothing more but a menacing, faceless shadow... Zak's little room is also his hell. I hope I conveyed it through the images and lighting.
I must warn you that some of the images are a bit disturbing.
The one thing I see that I need to fix next time is the overall red flesh tones. This was due, I believe, to the fact that I do not yet have a full set of pro, daylight balanced lights, and currently using what I can afford, a mixture of lowell lights and garage flood lights. I will get daylight balance hallogen bulbs for them tomorrow. Hopefully it will help.
Note that I used incidental lights but the light on the kid's face actually came from the keylight which was a 500K Lowell Omni set on soft focus, but otherwise a hard light, with barn doors closed to keep everything in the dark but the kid. I did not use a fill light or even a bounce. there was a slight fill from the incidental lights, which had been dimmed as far down as possible within them looking "lit".
The blue blinds effect was done with a 250K garage floodlight, with CTB gel, through a $5 air condition small metal vent, attached to a microphone stand (hey whatever works, beggars can't be choosers).
In this shot I wanted both to be mere shadows against the blue background:
This the last shot of the kid running down the staircase and running away. At the top of staircase, you can see the blue bedroom and the silhouette of the drunk dad. The key light was set so that it only lit Zak's face as he was about halfway down the stairs and while he yelled: "I HATE YOU" to his father.
PS: Worry not about Zak, he does find his happy ending in the story.
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