Glide Cam test 3 With lighting

This is a blog post about the third glide cam test again in my flat, this time however, we knew that the camera work was fine, this time it was simply about making sure that the lighting looked good and we could light it to be stylised but to also look like a party. We did this with 4 lights lights (3 red heads and 1 cool lamp). We had two red heads in my room, one facing the corridor and one pointing out of the window to light the path outside, then we had a redhead in the bathroom to further light the corridor and we had a cool light in the living room to light up that space.

As this is a big shoot we enlisted some extra help in the form of Andrew, Beth and Ethan, the other two had gone home at this point but Andrew was in this picture holding me. As you can see the green filter on the cool light gave a nice glow to the scene which when we fill it with people and potentially get some party lights it will really bring out the scene and give it a party aesthetic that we want from it.

The cool light itself was a bit of a pain to put a gel on as it is very wide and the gels are A4 sized, as a result we had to add two next to each other, luckily we had two greens which were the same. We originally tried blue on this but felt that it made the scene too cold and didn't light it very strongly whereas green was much more effective.

Of the lights this one was my favourite, it gave a really strong colour and a kind of UV effect which very much strongly emphasises our party vibe but it also is very neon which I for one love, especially within the context of this film as it is very neon and vibrant and this light is perfect for that look.

 

The other internal light was the red that lit the hallway and blended into the blue from the bathroom light very nicely and created a soft purple middle ground which I think looked fantastic, although there are no photos it can be seen on the video of the footage we took. There were a few issues with this lighting set up but on the whole it lit the scene fantastically and created a very vibrant neon party atmosphere and that is all before the acting and the music is added, this to me shows we are off to a flying start.