Monday, 14 March 2011

The Ted Shoot: PART 2 - Lighting Play

So when on location at Lacock I set myself the task of taking some stills to accompany the film. Unfortunately, with my basic knowledge, I just wasn't getting the hang of the studio equipment. In the end we decided to scrap the stills but there were a few testers I rather liked.




These shots were taken one afternoon in my flat, to experiment with the cake scene. I get lovely lighting through the large windows, so I upped the exposure even more and went for some really white, pure images. I knew those stale macaroons would come in handy!







By the time I got the model in, the light was too low and my tungsten lamp had actually blown! So I wasn't very pleased with the outcomes. However I used this shot to have a play with photoshop and I think it looks rather interesting.



The following are from the night 'letter' scenes. I used the tungsten light to give a golden glow, really love the effect it has in stills but yet to see the result in moving image.







Sunday, 13 March 2011

The Ted Shoot: PART 1 - On location

Oh Ted, before you my life was so simple!

So filming has begun and day one was spent on location at Lacock Abbey. To be honest everything that could have gone wrong did that day, including the camera having a funny five minutes, the lighting just not going how I wanted it to and to top it all off, the car keys getting locked in the boot!!

But here are a few snaps of the day in progress. And everyone had a smile on their face when gorgeous black lab, Todd turned up!