Progress Following Our First Main Shoot

Once we had captured the footage from the first main edit, we realized that lighting was still an issue. We wanted to make the lights darker and more sultry, but when looking back at the footage during the editing process, we noticed that this dark lighting made darker objects, such as Rose's dress, and shadows appear grainy. This made our footage look unprofessional, and conflicted with our aim to create a Hollywood blockbuster film.Therefore, we came to the conclusion that it would be sensible to do a reshoot in which we would make the lighting brighter in order to eliminate the grainy affect.

We realised that our main issue has been lighting throughout, and so, as our last shoot was coming up, we took the opportunity to do a lighting tutorial. This was led by our technician, who set up a room similar to our set, i.e. with a mirror, desk, chair etc. He then talked us through lighting, and we redid the lighting ourselves and found solutions for our problems. The main things we took away from this, was the fact we must light from one direction, and try to keep all the light coming from this direction only as that will help with continuity between shots; the second thing was to light from very high up, and this gave the shots a more naturally lit look, as it could be lights from the ceiling.

We also realized in our shots that we needed to make sure there was no product placement whatsoever in the shot and gave us another opportunity to correct shots we were not particularly happy with. We had a second shoot on Sunday 9th March 2014, which was more consistent with regards to lighting and therefore closer to our desired affect and we will edit the footage this week (Monday 10th March - Friday 14th March).