Isabelle Jackson

Jason Cutting-Davenport

Jorenzo Zafra

• "You" developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble (2018) on netflix

• Greta by Neil Jordan (2018)

We all individually created our own synopsis of our storyline and came together and shown our ideas to eachother, which helped decide what things we want and dont want in our story. Gathering ideas from each persons synopsis, this assisted to our final storyline.

Chosen names:

Melissa - Female role

Charlie - Male role

Charlie

• early twenties

• uncomfortable confidence, becomes a little nervous around Melissa

• has a boring life, becomes an interesting character when hes around Melissa

Melissa

• Is sweet and popular, liked by many

• Influencer

• gets nervous around charlie

• seems interested in him at first

Georgia - Director

Jason - Producer & Actor

Isabelle - Sound

Holly (Me) - Lighting & Actor

We briefly discussed on our group chat about who would be interested in what and we decided on our roles in our next lesson. Since I didnt get a chance to act in front of camera last term I wanted to have a chance to do so and my group were happy with me doing so. I agreed to do the role of lighting as this is something I haven't tried before and wanted to see how challenging it would be. From already looking at the storyline and inspiration from our 2 films we looked into, I had ideas on what kind of vibe I wanted to give off through the creative choices for the lighting in this short film.

• Use low key lighting

  This helps to create the look of dark and gloomy ambience

  implies danger, mystery and terror

  This style focuses on shadows

How to create this: use a powerful key light and then set it in a high or low angle

• wanted the vision of cold lighting to make it feel uncomforable and makes you think something isnt right (makes the audience feel uncomfortable)

How to achieve this: multiple light sources, used close to the subject your highlighting

Aim - something that is simple but makes you feel a certain way

This was our first shooting day and we decided to make a start on this scene first since this was the longest scene compared to the rest, and was with the most duologue.

Booking the equipment was an easy task as everything we needed to use to create this scene was luckily available. For this scene I used 3 LEDGO 1200 LED panel lighting. I had one set behind the shoulder of each actor when sat down, and a light next to the camera to light up the main set. I wanted to bring in as much light as possible for this scene to make you feel like its just a normal regular date at first and to make you feel unsure about what is to happen. Every other scene has been dull and dark, which gives off that impression of the storyline being unpredictable. Since we were filming next to a window, this made things difficult due to the lights being visible through the reflection and the natural light coming through on to our faces. First hour or two into filming, the sun wasnt very bright which made natural light coming through the window not as much as an issue. However, after being filming for a while, the sun started coming out which then ended up brightening up me and Jason's face when doing over the shoulder shots and made it difficult to maintain the correct lighting. I gave the idea of potentially closing the curtains so this wouldnt have an affect but the director liked the idea of having the view still on show to imply the character has potential freedom to get away from this character but its far away. When looking back at the footage through the camera, the lighting didnt seem bad at all and was giving off the illusion I wanted to make but when it came to getting all our completed footage off the SD card and watched it on a computer, the lighting looked completely different which became an issue for us and for our edit later on down the line. (explained in "Post production" slides)

For the Cafe scene, we werent able to use the LEDGO lights that I had originally been using since they werent available for that day so I booked out and collected two Falcon Eye RX-12TD LED lights. I feel If I had maybe booked out the equipment sooner we would've been able to use original lights, however the Falcon lights worked better than expected for the creative choices I wanted to convey. For this scene i wanted to create shadows on each characters face to give the illusion that something is off and that something is going to occur. I found this task extremely difficult when recording in New Adelphi Buildings cafe since their lighting was really sharp. I feel to improve this for next time, I could research more into how to create this shadow look effectively. Over the shoulder scenes had the lights on the right side of their face, using orange warm tones to still give the effect of being in a cafe.

Once we got all our completed footage off the SD card we were using, we were all able to sort them into files to make it easier to edit and was sent over to each of us individually. We had a look at all the footage together on a computer to see how it looked on a bigger screen and noticed a few issues with the lighting, espeically the restaurant scene. We noticed once It was on a big screen, the natural lighting near the end was too bright on the faces of the actors and the lighting was a bit too dark when doing a medium shot to show the setting of their date. We knew we had upcoming lessons about fixing lighting on clips while editing using premier pro so wanted to see if this would help. I brought up maybe reshooting these scenes to improve the lighting, however no one in my group were free to do so on reshoot week which I knew could potentially have an effect on my mark since Im the person getting marked on this role.

I went to the library to collect all the clips that had been sent to me to put them onto my hard drive to make a start on editing for the upcoming week. I found this task easy, however, I found that our "Roll 4" clips weren't going onto my hard drive so I just waited for mondays lesson from the help of my tutor. Since I had issues with my hard drive from last term when creating our first short film, I wanted to make sure I wasnt doing anything incorrect so I didnt have that issue again.

• i decided to wait for fridays lesson to explain whats happened to my tutor and what to do next

I think I could improve next time by maybe getting a better understanding of how formatting works and how to use premier pro in a better way.

I collected my hard drive off him the next day to continue editing.