It was nice not to be shooting in empty parking lot, late at night outside in the freezing cold weather. In our last scene for our group project we shot in the day time inside a nice, warm and cozy house. Michael’s Grandma’s house to be exact. Despite having the available natural light, we felt that it would be nice to add in some extra lighting to fill the scene and highlight some diamonds – this was a lighting exercise as the end of the day. We were also up against the unpredictable and typical Melbourne weather as the lighting would fluctuate between sunny and overcast. In our second and final scene we set at out to try something different but also re-visit some of the lighting aspects in the first scene.

For this shoot we opted for a spray to provide some haze to the scene. This made a more subtle haze as it was thinner than the smoke from the smoke machine of the first shoot. This haze made it seem like it was meant to be there rather than the audience question whether there was a fire on set. The spray haze ultimately did a better job at texturising the light without getting in the way of the scene. However it did make the shots a little flatter

In terms of lighting the inside, we used one Michael’s LEDs and bounced it on the ceiling. The bounce was bright enough to have an exposure on Michael’s face but not enough to overpower the sun light from the window behind Michael. I felt that Michael’s front side being lit darker gave him the mysterious look that was portrayed by his character.

We were not so stuck for time this round so despite the weather being inconsistent, we were able to wait for the sunny day type of lighting when it became cloudy. Overall the lighting was very diffused and we were able to achieve very soft and warm lighting.