Our script adaptation was made in three different shots. We wanted to choose an outdoor location full of dappled light and we found it on the balcony… well full of light, briefly.  The clouds came over quickly and all of a sudden we were working with harsh daylight. Luckily, there was a thick layer of cloud and that filtered the 2pm lighting down to something soft.

In our first shot, we only POFENGERED…. without the POW! The blue tones are indicative of no white balance. It’s blue, but theres a partial amount of the dappled light we were aiming for. My shot is the final one, of a CU of Margot’s face. Here I am trying to light the off-side.

I should have used a tripod, but I chose not to because I was intending on standing really far back, cranking the zoom to create a cool depth of field. I had just watched The Piano and there was a shot of Holly Hunter playing on the beach, with the golden background totally blurred. This shot has been haunting me (starts at 1:03).

In an epiphany I’m just having now, I realise that if I wanted to recreate this shot, I would need a tripod. The shot would need to be static and my hands would shake at a zoom length that far.
Anyway, I forgot to even attempt it because we were all freezing and the ear-touching scene was too funny.