Week 6 - Film Locations!

I've been super busy with working on film project and one of the hardest parts was finding a film location that had the right setting and the right lighting. I was surprised to find even the things that we learned in our lighting class carried over to film. This film we are shooting is a comedy and it contains a basketball scene. At first our team wanted to have this scene shot during the day, but when we went to our actual location, we preferred the darker setting. We felt like the dark setting would give cooler effects and create interesting shadows. The picture is of one of the producers, Sara and based on this picture I loved the idea of using the moving shadows, but in other pictures I took, we found the lighting in general gave the actors a washed out look. I thought " if only the basketball court had more lights!" . However since there is only one two lights facing the sides of the   basketball courts, the lights gave a more downcast emotion rather than the positive, comedic mood that we need. Hopefully, in another film I will be able to use these effects and shadows!