For the project 1, we decided two screen, one is in the studio, the another one is on the beach by the sea. The lights in the studio we used were two DEDO light and one Arri 1000k, while we shot by the sea, we only use the natural sunlight and one reflective board.
In the studio in Building 9, I was in charge of the light and sometimes helped with other things, and Jialu was the director and actress (because we didn’t find out one suitable actor/actress), Sylvia was the camera/cinemaphotographer, Kris was the props, and Rachel was being the track of cinemaphotographer.
The shot in studio, we decided to use one take, here is the picture shows the process.
At first, Jialu stood at 1, then walked to 2 then the 3. I didn’t draw the camera out because the track of the camera was a little bit confused and if I put it on the whole picture will be complex.
When she stood on 1 the Arri 1000K there light her, then when she walked to the 2, the Arri 1000k turned 90-degree angle to the 3 to prepare Jialu’s coming. There were two DEDO light there to light her when she came from 1 to 2 and 2 to 3.
When she was on 1
When she was from 1 to 2
When she was from 2 to 3
When she was on 3
Because this time we used one take, the big challenge was all the lights and others need to cooperate well in the process. But we don’t have enough hands to control all the equipment that we need so thanks to Jialu’s friends helps. We practiced couple times to go.
Compared to the studio screen, shooting by the sea made us have to be affected by nature and some uncontrollable factors. The weather at that day was cloudy, but the sun was accidentally coming out from time to time, which made us annoying. Also, we needed to stop because of those pedestrians.
To be honest, I don’t think how to set up the light is the most difficult part. There were many challenges that we were facing. In my opinion, how we express the last part of THE STRANGER of ALBERT CAMUS, how the script and screen go. At the shooting studio and beach, how to do the preparation and co-operate as a group is really challenged.
During the process, we recognized that we were thinking too much, we only discussed how to perfectly create it out but we ignored that we only had 5 people in this group, the video we made need to base on this condition. So later we gave up many great and beautiful ideas.