Setting and Lighting

We came up with several locations for our film opening to be set in. Our first possible setting was in my bathroom as it was an open area but we thought it wasn't suitable and would only be used as a last resort if we couldn't find anywhere better. We then thought of using one or our group's garages as they are open area that would be dark so don't have to worry about ambient lighting. The problem with this was that the spaces in each of our garages were cluttered up and we wouldn't of been able to move everything around. Having failed to have found a location outside of college we then searched around for a place in school. We found a storage room in the design section of college but we were told we couldn't move around any of the work inside there so we couldn't use that room. We then found a metal workshop, also located in the design area which was pretty much perfect for our setting. There is a few problems with the room but its nothing we cannot sort out.

The ambient lighting is one of the main problems that we will have with the film but this can be overcome by placing black sugar paper over the skylights to block any incoming light. This will then make the room dark enough to be filmed in.




This is an establishing shot of the room we are using for the opening. Its a spacious room that we can easily maneuver around when we shoot the 360 degree pan. Some of the stuff in this photo will be moved when we get round to filming the final peice. For the lighing we will be setting up two spot lights either side of the room but out of sight so there will be no continuity problems.


This is the only ambient light that we will be using during the opening to our film. The fan makes the shot more full and if we have ambient light coming in from the fan it will make the shots with it in more eery and sinister.