Pre-production lighting

During the filming of our music videos one of the most vital aspect (and possibly most difficult to master) is getting the rights sort of lighting. As an experimentation we grouped together to try to recreate some iconic lighting scenes from famous movies. My group decided to do the iconic lighting from terminator with the cross over of a red and blue filter (also known as the Hasta La Vista Baby scene).







Here you can see the finished product of Ella with two light rigs set up either side of her with two different coloured filters. Personally I doubt I will use this sort of colour contrast in my video but in doing this little experiment it helped me a lot in realising how shadows work and how the colour intensity can change the mood of a scene, actually being the one taking the photograph here made me realise that when I am filming for my own music video and need to do close ups/ extreme close ups I must be able to trust my actor and I myself must be comfortable enough with the actor to be in such close proximity to them.