LIGHT. This weeks reading provided some very useful information on lighting for a film. It looks like our location will provide us with a lot of natural light. Obviously we won't have the thousands of dollars worth of equipment to help control our light, however it is worth knowing anyway. For example, using cutters and scrims to control hard light, or using a hard light but making it soft by bouncing it off a white board and then filtering it through a screen. I had never thought about shadows in film, however with multiple light sources can come multiple shadows. This would significantly reduce the idea of the film being real, as in real life it would be rare for a us to have more than one shadow at a time.
It's amazing how much work with light goes in to making it look realistic. Personally, I think all films should be shot with the venetian blind look that was so popular in the 40's. Everyone looks mysterious, sexy, and dangerous.
Annie your blogging is good, it is very useful for you to relate the work you are doing here back to tv shows and films that you know. It is really helpful to make connections between lessons learnt and the finished thing, which always seems impenetrable to us until we start making stuff ourselves. Don't forget to talk about group dynamics too and how the process is going, and concerns you are having along the way and how you solve them.
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