Holly Probert DFSA Productions

My role: On the studio shoot I took on the role of Gaffer. I worked under our cinematographer and I worked beside/within the camera team. As gaffer I worked alongside Chris in order to get to grips with the lights and he walked me through how to use the switch board and dimmer switches on the sky lights.  We didn’t have a lighting plan set in stone for the shoot. The director told me he wanted it flooded, but not too much that you couldn’t see the texture of the set. So I used two 4K lights as back lights. I used two of the sky lights to light from above, and used one huge powerful light, which I can’t currently think of the name for, to really flood out the rest of the set. As well as this we had a window on the left wall of the set. The director told me he wanted that lit, so chris and I used a huge piece of poly board, a clamp and a 1K light to achieve this. We positioned the board diagonally to the window, then we clamped the 1K light onto the top of the Left set wall and a...

Prelight!! Today was the pre light ready to shoot on Monday. I really enjoyed today working beside Anne and learning a lot from Chris who helped me so much with the lights. We discussed the set ups and worked together to figure out most of it, he showed me how to dim the space lights and operate the 1K's with the switch board. We did a few camera tests including Anne and lorna talking us through the Samuri and Ninja software. I feel like today was really proactive. We changed the lighting slightly, as in the plans savina hadn't put in a back light, but it made the actors almost stick to the back wall, so we added two back lights with trace on to back light, and then soften it so the shadows were not as intense. I took some photos to show what it looks like finished.  

so after speaking to some people we have decided to get oatmeal colour material because if we got white it would wash out too much, however, oatmeal with the correct lighting shows up as white. Other than that everything seems to be going well. I've started my research and will be uploading it soon.

final idea? So today we had a group meeting in the library with our camera team as well as joe and Dixie. We came up with an idea about Ying and yang, showing how two opposites in a neutral environment interact and cooperate with one another and how, ultimately, they can't live without one another. So I think the idea is as follows: Synopsis: from what I understand it's about ying and yang, two actors in platonic relationship. They begin separate with a thin material between them in the space, they perform some choreographed movement, dance or over dramatic theatrical movement of some sort. They then go through various different stages showing their opposites, like "hide and seek", or "push and pull" ending up with the two together in the space moving and working in harmony showing that you need one to help the other. Set design: so what I said in a previous post about an almost heavenly type setting was correct. Joe was talking about having material d...