Lighting Sets

To have better control over the lighting we have hired out two red-heads from the stores. These tungsten lights can deliver 800w which is a lot of light. However it is useful to have too much light as it can be controlled using reflectors and gels.
The lights will be used to light all of the scenes we are filming and possibly use them to create early morning light if needed; depending on the shooting schedule

Here is some examples of how we lit the sets for the film:

Kitchen

we set up the Key light behind the cameras into the kitchen so the characters and set were illuminated better. Using the kitchen lights made the room very dark and it would be difficult to film.

Another light was added outside the window to act as the morning sun. This would diffuse the shadows cast by the Key light and give more depth to the scene











This is how the set looks when lit. There is a warm yellow tint to the room as mornings are when the sun rises.
















Bedroom

Only the bed needed to be lit up for this scene and so both lights were pointed towards it. One light was on the right of the bed and the other was on the left. This cast fairly bold shadows but it lit up the set to how we wanted it.

















Pub and Outside

When filming outside we used the lights inside the pub rather than the redheads, here we could get the natural light from the lights and as we were filming at the bar the lights were bright enough as it is.

Here, Norman is lit up and the background is much darker. There is no need to light the background as it is un-important and that it is obivous he is at a bar with the pumps in the foreground.

Outside we used the lights from the street, using a redhead would have caused the wrong type of lighing that we needed and would have looked un-realistic. It is too powerful and would cast shadows too strongly