After shooting
As this first shooting, I am very unsatisfied with the result. Because the concept I want to shoot has no meaning, all I want to show is about the light, the changing light, how can light contribute the atmosphere, the shadows from light and so on. I was satisfied when I was shooting, I shot a lot of footages about playing with light. After I seeing all the footages and got ready to edit, I found I had made many mistakes.
- Different colors in the light irradiation will reflect the different effect. Like black can always hide perfectly even in a very brightening condition, but white will always appear with tiny lights. I wanted to show these differences and asked my actress to change her clothes in some part and forgot to think about the continuity. Meanwhile, if I really wanted to have both in black and white, I should shoot all the scenes in two colors and edit with jumping cuts.
- So many obvious ‘goof’ I found when I was editing, like the changing position of the lights, the performance of the actress cannot be continuously, especially the clothes.
- Because I have to shoot in a dark condition, so it is hard for me to invite my friends as my assistance, in especial they are living as far as Clayton. I needed to do everything by my own, changing the lights, operated the film camera, control the mist machine well, set the camera in a suitable place. So many extra stuff made me miss the detail of the scene.
- I think I paid too much attention on the light and lost the sight of enjoyable of making video.