In Experiment 1; Elannor, Jagger and Noah’s goal was essentially to pick an assortment of shots from different films and see how many lighting setups they could recreate with just one light. They planned to only used a 2K Fresnel with the help of bounce boards, cutters and various types of diffusion. Their first shot was a recreated closeup of Scarlett Johanssen from the film Lost in Translation (2003). The shot required extremely soft light with a dusk feel to it. Their recreation was almost spot on. Perhaps the key side could have been a little less bright but ultimately it fit well. Their second shot was a recreation of the sewer scene from IT (2017). The shot required a very focusable light without it being too hard. Out of all their recreations, I felt this was the least similar to the original. The light they used seemed too soft and not quite narrow enough. In their third shot they tried to recreate the boat scene from the film Her (2013). This shot was originally backlit with a heavy fill from the front. I thought they did a really good job with this shot as their backlight to fill ratio was next to perfect when compared the original film. In their final shot they attempted to recreate a scene from Arrival (2016). This shot required a heavily diffused backlight creating silhouette of the subject with creature like shadow between the backlight and the diffused screen. The group’s use of creativity definitely helped with their end shot and the final product was extremely similar to the original. Their set up looked simple was ultimately effective.

Overall I thought this group did really well with one light source to recreate multiple different shots from a variety of films. Although not completely accurate they were often 90% there which for a one light setup is really impressive.