The past week felt optimistic, with the screening of our final(ish) draft in class we received encouraging feedback. This made the work we did was worth it despite its troubles, though I would try to avoid any similar trouble like this in the future; or perhaps at least it felt like the work we did was not in vain. The terror that what we had worked on would not have come out as we hoped would have been a discouraging affair. However, it did not come to that and we were extremely proud of the piece we created. The only thing to touch up would be some sound equalisation and some extra sound effects for footsteps and atmosphere.
Things to improve on of course would be our time management of the place, things like determining if the shot was good enough rather than perfect would be helpful in our time management. Next would be working with different variants of fill light, if we were going with a more intense (soft) light to really brighten the scene or use a less intense one. The former would achieve a brighter room setting but would introduce a challenge to our water background effect on if we are able to provide enough water light effect for it to be significant. The former is essentially what we achieved, with a generally dark setting being filled up by a soft light (in our case it was a Kino). The feedback on my performance was promising as I have not done any acting professionally however I’m passionate and interested in it enough to at least attempt acting, the general feedback on it was it was a good performance as it can be. Though with our inspiration for the scene was much rhythmically quicker, though ours had a longer script. Had we had a few days to rehearse and prepare, the outcome would be more towards that rhythm in the scene in Bladerunner 2049. Though, because it was such a longer shoot, I was sitting in my spot for essentially 3 or 4 hours before we took our first shot and in the close ups it shows my blemishes. In hindsight it would’ve been extremely relieving to have some makeup and drink enough water (ironically) on set. It would have fixed the blemishes on my face as well is my chapped lips for sure. Though, if it were in a much higher yielding project, a short film for example, there would be people with this in the forefront of their mind.
Blade Runner 2049 Baseline Test Scene.
Now what comes next is part 2 of this project; we want to achieve essentially the same tone in the following scene. This time we intend to use hard light and a less number of lights along with a hazer. With this, we hope to achieve a noir like feeling. With the use of less lights and the use of a hard light source and a hazer we hope to achieve a smoke effect similar to that we had with a water effect in project 1. Though they are separate in their execution and look, but they both would hope to achieve an ambience in the scene. Achieving this ambience and learning how to use it will fare well in the future in the film making I want to pursue.
