Monday week 3 the raven

Monday has relieved some of my fears and we have got a lot of lighting and plans done but there is still work to be done like having the board up behind the door which needs lighting, this means this will need to be done on the day of shooting which could put the full shoot behind. It’s nobody’s fault other then it took longer than anticipated to get the studio up but it has meant that I feel I have not been able to do my job to the best of my ability which has disappointed me as I don’t think I have been able to work to my best ability as I really wanted this project to show what I can do. Another issue is to get good exposure I have to over-light the studio which means flooding the candles out or underexposing the image. This was because it took so long to get the candles in and I couldn’t tell whether or not they would give enough light until they was up and lighting the set it turned out they didn’t give enough light off like I imagined so I chose to get more light that looks like candle light by bouncing light from a reflector it is not ideal as I wanted it to look like all the light was coming from candles and through the window that looked like the moon. I will use the reflector to light parts of the room that are too dark but my frustration was that I only wanted this for lighting dark parts of the room and now I am having to use it as a main light if I had more time I could have created another way of getting more light in but feel like we have to settle for this as I have run out of time. I discussed this with Zac and told him that the look I was showing him was underexposed and then showed him the correctly exposed image and he said he preferred the underexposed image. I explained the issues faced with underexposing it and that I would personally like to expose it properly and allow somebody to add the effects later on but he said he wanted to have the underexposed image.