FilmingLighting

This was a series of quite complicated scenes with five actors during a series of group therapy sessions. Particularly difficult with the number of eyelines involved. We were filming at the Trouville Hotel who were really helpful to us. We… Continue Reading…

FilmingLighting

I’m catching up on my blog, so this happened some weeks ago. This was filming the scenes for “No Apologies” at the therapist’s house in Bournemouth.  It was the day following the very late night filming at the flat in… Continue Reading…

FilmingLighting

Yes! the whole camera crew, sound and director all in the bath.  ( well actually I only have one leg in the bath)  Paul is focus pulling. I’m using a 50 mm 1.8 prime lens, which only gave about an… Continue Reading…

FilmingLighting

This was a scene about “Bob” (Paul Barrand) getting very frustrated with “Rose”  (Sarah Masters) who is an obsessively neat parker …if that makes sense.  Takes a long time parking. I thought of making some crass joke about women and… Continue Reading…

FilmingLightingMy Films

Second filming day. Well actually to be strictly accurate this was a filming night.  But as we were almost on midsummer day, with the longest day and hence shortest night, the flat was blacked out. Using the ubiquitous bin bags…. Continue Reading…

equipmentFilmingLighting

First day went well. It was only a single scene so we had a chance to learn to work together and try out some of the new HDSLR film equipment. As it was a really wide angle shot at the… Continue Reading…

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