Lighting

Lighting was a bit of a difficulty for us, it took us atleast one hour everytime we set up to sort out lighting before we could film. The problem we had was our sets were quite small and whenever we tried to create a theme with the lighting ot create some depth we always had problems with it not refelcting on to teh set the way we imagines it, we played around a lot with the appature and exposure on the camer and even used flash while having lighting to create the mood we wanted. Altouhg we worked really hard on lighting i dont think the outcome was great. In scenes such as the outdoor scene where the man is creeping up to the yetis window, we wanted it to look like daylight so it was bright and sunny, we wanted it to come to life, to make the audience feel teh atmoshphere but it didnt turn out that way at all, it was difficult to undertsand how lighting can work on black as well because most of our set was black and red, i think this made it much more difficult to work with. We also had problems creating depth within the scenes, everything looks almost flat, I think the use of colours we used werent the best but from this i learnt a lot and hopefully will be ready to undertstand lighting further in with future projects.
The lecture with Jon Wood was extremely inspiring and eye opening. The tuorial on lighting really helped me understand positioning and use of lighting from a directors point of view.