Production Research - Lighting 1

Before our group begins the production process we need to prepare and research. Since I am the director I need to research into filming, lighting, sound, production design and editing so I can work with everyone else in the group and their roles.

Lighting
For the lighting aspect I looked at several webpages and videos for tips, tricks and techniques on lighting for film.

I stayed on the WITNESS webpage since they had other articles on many aspects of filming such as lighting. The article on how to get good lighting also had many videos that demonstrate each way of lighting a character with different lighting setups as well as information on exposure and white balance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTZoBDPCcsU

For our film we are shooting in a dark environment but we will use our lighting effectively to keep the environment looking dark but bright enough to capture the details on our characters without the audience knowing so they will think it's natural lighting.

The for the reveal of our alien silhouette will will use a powerful light source to back like the person in the alien costume to create our silhouette on a white shower curtain that we covered the window with to diffuse the light source to spread its surface area of light.

We will use a torch as a prop for brandon's character as the power for the bungalow has gone out in our film. This will be a great use of mise-en-scene and lighting as the torch serves multiple purposes.