Lighting Experiments

During the making of this video, we experimented a lot with different lighting. The most apparent evidence of this is in the club scene, where we had access to the house lights system in the school drama studio. This meant that over the large reel of footage we shot, we had various light colour schemes to choose from (eg red/blue/green/white strobing). Most importantly, it meant we were able to create a realistic looking setting that the audience could believe.

The other key area we manipulated the lighting was in the 'sex scene', with the deep blue lights reminiscent of the club whilst creating a softer, more sensual texture to the scene. We also used torchlight reflected upwards off tinfoil to compliment skin tones through warm yellow light that didn't overpower the shot.

However, we chose not to experiment with post-production effects (eg exposure/contrast/saturation) for fear it may ruin the independent feel of the video by giving it higher production values and a glossier, more coherent feel, as in many ways the amateurishness of the project is appealing.