Kodak Awards- Popcorn Lightest

In practise for the shoot of the popcorn advert we did a lighting test in Hartlepool FE's lecture theatre as this looks like a cinema. I must admit that when we suggested filming in there I wasn't sure it would look like a cinema but having done this lighting test I think it would not only be a suitable location to shoot, but ideal for what we want.

This is the seating layout of the lecture theatre, the only issue that I can see is that the walls in a real cinema wouldn't be white, however, with lighting and camera work this is easily avoided.

This is the initial lighting set up with a single redhead behind the main actor and a cool light in front to fill in the face so he isn't just a silhouette. From here we did some more experiments with lighting to see if we could further enhance the cinema look and feel.

We then experimented with different filters on the back (main) light to see how this effected the image and the lighting of Ryan, this had varying results and from this we decided we needed to add a third light to add colour so that the actor could have a light flicker so as to create the illusion of the actor watching a film.

From the addition of a second light we pointed it away from the actor and then used a reflector and flickered the light back on to the actor using the silver side of the reflector without the inside of it making it rigid.

This is essentially the final result, although it is somewhat changed by the fact that we have the light in shot, obviously this wouldn't be the case under normal circumstances but for the sake of this shot you can see how successful the lighting has been, I have now drawn up a plan for the lighting and we are now prepared for the shoot, we just need actors and to book the room.