Jan 05 2009
Project Joans
I went to visit my friend Mary who lives five hours from me down in a small town in southern Mississippi. While there we made a little movie. This spawned forth from her obsession with the Jonas Brothers. Project Jonas
So, while reading up on tips about lighting they say always use at least 100 watt bulbs and there might be something to that. From reading Rodriguez’s book, they used 250 watt bulbs in their first feature. The lighting on our little “set” was three normal house lamps. I think I put one of them too close to Mary cause it reflects off her cheeks a little oddly. Which is weird that it does this because these are your average lamps with a 60 watt bulb in them. Perhaps when using more wattage the lights are placed further from the subject. It’ll be something to play around with as I do more little practise movies.
We did another short movie on my visit that I’ve yet to edit. I noticed from that just how much brighter it is during the day. With sunlight, all I had to do was open a window and anywhere in the room was fine lighting for the camera. However, with inside lighting we had to get 3+ lamps to get one small area to look even halfway normal to the camera and not incredibly red tinted. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me, as the sun is a nice burning ball of fire some 100+ times the size of the earth.
