Lighting Checks

Lighting Checks

Before we begin filming, we need to know what time of day we will be filming at at each location.  As sunset was at 3:50 on my practice day, I needed to film around this time as too much before would be too light and compromise the scary aspect and too much after would be too dark.

The first video is a clip of the church location we are using.  The time of this clip is 3:35pm, which I feel is an appropriate time for filming this section as there is still plenty of light for the audience to see the gothic aspects of the church and to see the priest clearly.  Although the lighting is not dark enough to give off a scary atmosphere, we can always use filters in the editing process to rectify this.

The second video is of the alley way we wish to use.  The time here was 3:45pm and is obviously a little bit darker than before.  This is appropriate because the alley way scene comes after the church scene.  Alley ways are also quite enclosed and eerie so the darker lighting is in parallel to that.



The final clip is of the woods location.  This was filmed at 4pm which may be a little late as the clip is very dark so not a lot of high quality film would be captured.  Although we wanted to use torches and strobe lighting to create  shadowy low-lighting so it would have to be dark for that to work effectively.

In conclusion I think that the time between 3:30pm and 4pm is the optimum time for our film opening.  The church scene may have to be filmed at a slightly later time than I have used and once we have experimented with the torches we can decide when the best time for the woods scene would be.