The biggest difficulty we faced when shooting was getting the lighting looking natural and consistant. Due to this being the first time we've used lighting out of a studio environment a lot of trail and error was involved when setting up the Dedo's. I'm not convinced we did a brilliant job throughout, there are a lot of shadows the the lighting quality does differ shot to shot. This being said however, being that it was a steep learning curve I feel we did well in some scenes to create good atmosphere, particularly one of claustrophobia and intimacy. The screenshot below sees our character indulging in one of his favourite pass-times, being 'sociable' with like minded people on the internet. Not only does this shot feel personal, but after taking advice, we wanted to vary the times of day that the film portrayed, thus giving a better, more rounded depiction of this characters life style. Considering this was filmed at around 2pm on a sunny day, we have done well to light the scene as if it were late at night.
Below is an example where we didn't get it quite so right, the shadow on the left hand side is far too exaggerated considering there is meant to be no light other than the morning sunshine. Not only this but there is too much of an 'orangy' glow, this can be fixed in post, however it just goes to show we need more practice and to be less reliant on our colour correction skills.
Another problem that was hard to over come was using the glide cam, after such high expectations, when we came to see the results, their lack of quality just didn't justify using them in the final edit. Aside from the quality, the reason they didn't look right was mainly because the vast majority of the film makes use of locked off shots, due to there being just one character in a house, there was little need to use camera movement. It was also party because we drew inspiration from 'Clerks,' a film that works brilliants with very simple, static shots. After storyboarding for a film that emulate the style of 'Clerks,' the late discovery of the glide cam, while exciting in theory, didn't add anything to the cinematography. The one shot that we had always suggested using movement for was the track back, away from the character in a scene where we hoped to increase the audiences empathy with him by showing how alone he was. This remains in the film but I'm not happy with it, had we more time I would have liked to re shoot that scene using a few different techniques and ideally earlier on in the day.
As you can see its very dark, we wanted it to be night time, however because we were going to be moving back through the location the placement of lights was very hard to get right. Due to the camera moving away from the character, we needed to ensure a high aperture setting to allow the camera a larger depth of field, this caused problems however as more light was needed to light the scene. Either they would light the room too much or not enough (as is the case). Along side that, with a moving shot it becomes hard to stop lights drifting into shot or shadows becoming accentuated as your angle changes slightly. Overall I don't believe the footage we captured does the scene justice, which is a shame as it had potential to be one of the best shots of the film.
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