Hello reader, welcome to my blog. In this post, I will be demonstrating my progress in adjusting the lighting in very bright environments with white light. Let's begin.
Context:
For Scene 2 of my film's opening sequence, we filmed in the school library. Despite the professor's warnings about filming in public schools, we went ahead and did it anyway. This led to a few issues—primarily regarding the lighting intensity—which did absolutely nothing to enhance the scene.
The Problem: The light was excessively bright and created glare on Maria's (the protagonist's) hair. Not only that, but there is a specific shot in Scene 2 where we needed to film the protagonist's phone; due to the lighting conditions, the camera itself was heavily reflected in the screen. Furthermore, in the shot filmed from an overhead angle, the light once again created glare on the protagonist's hair.
Connecting to a Planning Blog Post: On one of my planning blogs, I was testing out lenses -something I hadn't had the opportunity to do during my first production. I thought that particular planning post wouldn't amount to anything, since I hadn't actually included the use of lenses in the shot list - because we didn't need them. Yet, after all was said and done, that planning turned out to be perfect.
Solution to the Problem: The CPL Lens
This significantly improved the contrast in Scene 2 a highly advantageous outcome, as it brought the scene into alignment with Scene 1. It also reduced reflections in the protagonist's hair and on the cell phone; indeed, I would venture to say that it even enhanced the appearance of the skin, as well as the colors present in the scene (particularly in the drawings and artwork).
Image of the CPL Lens front*
The new problem: the phone holder kept shifting the clip. The clip was quite large. This caused it to obstruct the phone's lens, which, in turn, resulted in dark corners appearing on the screen.
The unorthodox solution: Since we really liked the look of the shots, we decided to keep the lens. What we did was zoom in slightly and keep the shots that way. That way, the dark corners didn't appear on the screen.
Takeaways:
I learned that experience speaks for itself. The teacher was right that the lighting in schools isn't the best for recording movies. I also learned that lenses are very useful, even though I used to think the opposite because the equipment I had looked outdated. But I think I'm not entirely wrong because the clip was definitely too big to use effectively in the phone holder.
That's all for now, reader. Thank you for reading this collection of thoughts.
-Dragorite
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