Inheritance Fire test

As one of the scenes in Inheritance is at night time and in front of a campfire me and Ryan went to my back garden and made a fire to test the lighting that this gave off. This was for the death scene in the film where Sophie returns to her camp to find her father on his death bed before he eventually dies and she is left alone to grieve. When doing this test I was very limited by space and fuel, if we decide to shoot this in my garden (which I very much believe we will) then we will dig up a patch of turf in the main bit of the garden to put the fire on so we have more space to build the campsite and the fire.

We shot this with the 35mm Lens on the camera and I am over the moon with the results, though I do feel the facial lighting is a little bit full on, I quite like this because we can focus on the raw emotion that the characters are feeling. In addition to fire however, we have discussed adding a blue backlight to act as moonlight in the scene, I am not 100% sure on this and unfortunately due to the cost and time of doing this shoot we wont be able to do a practise, however, what we can do is try it on set and we will know instantly whether it makes a difference or not se we will therefore know straight away whether the light is needed or not. I do wish that we could have done a practise of all the shots using this lighting but there simply wasn't enough space to manoeuvre the camera where I would have needed it. In summary, I think the fire is a perfect lighting source and does not need to be replicated, but there may need to be another source to serve as a back light.