On set, I was quite nervous about some of the shots being too dark, so dark that they wouldn’t actually show up on a larger screen, but everything is legible so that’s good. Even though I said earlier that I didn’t want to use lighting that isn’t “available” lighting, I’m glad I did, because it helped in some shots.

These shots were lit by a single Litepanel, because without it, nothing actually showed up on the viewfinder because it was too dark. It doesn’t look unrealistic because he is not lit stylistically, it just gives the shot a bit of a pop. 


I think this was quite a spontaneous use of the Litepanel, because it wasn’t necessarily needed, with the backlight coming from the streetlight in the distance, and the key light coming from the tail light of the car and the light from inside of the boot. The Litepanel is given the role of fill light, and has been used to add shadows on the face of the guy, which adds a demonising effect that I really like.

This was my favourite shot, because the lighting really emphasised the movement in the scene, highlighting the violent scene and the dirt flowing across the frame.

At the time of shooting this, I was really unhappy with it, because it didn’t turn out much like my tests, because I didn’t have time to properly set up the camera and the framing because it had started to rain. Another thing that initially irked me was the fact that it was raining in this shot, but not in any of the others, but I have actually grown to prefer this. The rain adds a sense of chaos to the drama, and this being just a test, continuity isn’t so much of an important factor than just learning from things.