OUTSIDE LIGHTING EXERCISE

The way I see this video, I think resembles the way many see Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 film, ‘The Room’. Perhaps the greatest bad movie ever made. I’m not too sure what is going on here, and it looks like crap, but it is also magnificent (mainly for the way that Rosie rocks the camera). The first shot in the sequence was the one that I directed and “owned”, and while we were supposed to be paying attention to lighting, I’m not sure I did at all. It wasn’t creative in any special way, the light didn’t dapple around her face spectacularly, dreary sunlight just lit up her face enough for her to be seen. The first and second clips accidentally didn’t get any coinciding audio recorded on the microphone, so there is an abrupt change between the second and third clip where you can actually hear Rosie’s voice. Ideally, if I were to do it again, I would have changed locations to somewhere, perhaps under a tree, so I could experiment with capturing dappled light (although it was a very overcast day and not much was working in our favour anyway). Most of the shots are far too overexposed and the framing of the shots isn’t great in general, but at least it was an exercise in which Rosie got to make us laugh (as seen in the end).