On 28th March, we did our exercise 8. It was scene 27 called “The Misunderstanding”, we shoot it in the west foyer of Building 9. We spent more time on the 1st part than the 2nd part, and of course, we met more challenges for the 1st part.
For the 1st part, we used the light Kino Flo light indoor as the small area was dark.
The Kino Flo Light did make this area bright up but the question comes that the Light seems to be too focus and too much in this small and cabined indoor area. We can see that the red wall on the right side is bright and also the strong reflection of light on the lift door, they were very unnatural. People can obviously find the location of the light. I think we should try with some soft or half soft frost to control the light balance. But something interesting is this scene has a little bit future sense of technology, like a sci-fi movie.
Except for this one, there was an obvious question that everyone saw in the class that the color temperature isn’t balanced in different shots.
Color temperature change strangely and uncomfortably between shots which makes the whole video looks uncoordinated. How to solve this problem? I am thinking that we can use some orange color filter to adjust the indoor environment since we can’t do something outdoors. Also if we use the color filter, we need to cooperate with other lights there because they have a blue color which affects the whole environment.
When we came outside, we found that the sunlight was very bright to negatively affect our filming. From the dark area to the bright area, we figured out a method that adjusts the aperture while they are walking from the one side to the other side. With the formula that the larger the aperture (the smaller the number of apertures, the larger the aperture), the greater the amount of light entering. In fact, this method can also be tried and used on our 2nd part to solve the overexposure question.
Move to the 2nd part, the entrance was more bright than the 1st one so the Kino Flo Light was not required. When we were shooting there, the light indoor was as bright as the light outdoor as I seen, at least the difference won’t be too much, but the final video shows me the horrible overexposure.
Even the over-exposure grind the edge of my face.
What can we do in this environment with limited equipment?
I think a lot.
First, we can use multiple lights indoor to omnidirectionally fill the whole indoor environment (because we are moving from side to side).
Or we can change the location of the camera, just like what another group has done.
To summarize, we were practicing how to adjust lights and camera in dynamic range and circumstances. How the lights set up if many things in the shot are dynamic? Personally think that at that time, we should pay more attention to the whole environment rather than is the light on his/her face look very soft and natural because that’s unnatural if someone’s face always has a soft light on it.