[StuGilmartin]

[StuGilmartin]

Hi, really sorry if people can see my replies and if they have been posted numerous times, on my end they don’t seem to be posting/showing.

Hi, thanks I actually meant to post  a bit more info but was doing it on my phone and somehow it only posted the two images.

I knew the sun would be behind that building all day so we parked in the shade. So used the building as a flag sort of.
we put a black out curtain over the back of the car when we were shooting the two shot from the rear.

For the close ups we bounced a 1.2k Arri Sun into a white Poly back through the front window. We didn’t have much of a budget so we did the best with what we had.

For rain.. Well it’s Scotland. it always rains haha. Nah we knew it would be a rainy day and for the most part the weather gave us rain when we needed it and held off when we wanted it dry, The sun did come out in the afternoon but right before we shot the final angle the cloud covered it and gave us a shower

Shot it on a RED Helium with Cooke S4’s the images aren’t final looks but happy to take feedback on our set up and or the images.

[StuGilmartin]

[StuGilmartin]

Interesting, as a gaffer maybe you could give me your thoughts on this.

I recently was on a shoot, had talked with the director and we’d figured out a look and I’d come up with a basic lighting plan. I was still to meet the Gaffer. When we finally did get the chance to meet immediately he was annoyed I had a lighting plan and spent most of the time trying to convince me the look I was going for was wrong.

The plan in my head was a rough idea of how we’d visualised the shot but I was quite happy to defer to the Gaffers expertise to improve upon or suggest better options not to crap all over the plan and threaten to walk unless we gave him complete control of the lighting.

I asked him to show me what he was thinking so he started putting lights and stuff in place, and while it was very nice. Both myself and the director didn’t like the look as it wasn’t fitting with the style we were going for on this particular production.

He then quit, I ended up lighting it myself. The whole process was a massive waste of time.

I’d be curious as to another Gaffers opinion and other DOP’s because it was the first time I was challenged this way and as working with Gaffer’s was/is relatively new to me I am curious to know Was I in the wrong for having a look/mood I wanted to achieve and a basic plan for doing so?

I eagerly await peoples thoughts.

[StuGilmartin]

wow, thanks for the pic, as mentioned the scene looks so natural.  I really didn’t think it was a sunny day lol

[StuGilmartin]

Hi, thanks again, really  helpful info. I’m shooting a car scene this Friday so It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

 

Thanks

[StuGilmartin]

Amazing, thanks for replying 🙂 What Light source did you use? was it HMI?
Did you black out any windows of the car?

 

Thanks again

[StuGilmartin]

I think it was in the script that the rain turned to sleet/snow but I don’t know if I have the original (it’s a bit different to the actual scene) or an adapted version but I would be interested to hear more on the process here as well. Especially for the mix of rain to snow.

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