Before the Easter break, the group and i had a lighting workshop with Colin to finalise our lighting for our fashion shoot. Even though this workshop was purely based on a rough guide, it helped with positioning and type of lighting we would use for our shoot. We took this day as an opportunity to experiment with different lighting and how it could portray the type of narrative we are hoping to achieve. We tested several lighting and used myself as our stand in model, as i was similar height.
The image above shows what the set looked like without any lights. We used C-stands both heavy duty and normal sized ones, to represent the trees in order to understand the placement of the model in correlation to the set. The heavier black stands represent the forefront trees, and therefore would be the ones that would defiantly be in crisp detail. Which was good about this day, was we learnt we didn't need any flats for our set, and learnt what sort of lighting and equipment we would need. This helped plan for our fashion shoot.
Above is the lighting diagram we produced at the end of the this workshop with Colin. We measured f/stop of the camera, the distance from the camera to the first two trees on both sides of the measurment from the back wall of the studio to the postioning of the model. We will then correspond this to the design of the set on the actual shoot week.
The images below show the first set of lighting that we used. Two Arri lights one off the left side of the picture shining down onto the model and one Arri light down on the floor with blue gel over the top in order to represent where the fog would be and where the detail would be caught from the light.
This picture is the same as above, but with a branch coming across the frame. We portrayed this effect by attaching a branch to a C-stand with some tape. We thought be experimenting with this effect it could perhaps look like we are looking through the woods, recognising her reaction towards her everyday occurrences.
The image above shows some lighting that was coming from the side of the shot. We decided to use polly boards as we had to find a solution to block out the light from the other group's lighting.
After discussions we decided to shoot landscape . In the images below you can see the positioning of the lights and the back light, which i suggested could be diffused more, as i think it could perhaps look too bright.
This is a miniature scale of the set with the leaves, trees and moss. Referring to the McQueen fashion week 2012 we wanted to create top lighting, so to create this effect we pierced a whole in the top of the phome, and a hole in the back to create low lighting for fog and detail of flooring. And the white figure in the middle represents the model.
This is an eye level picture, showing the top light over the model. We couldn't really see the 'effect' of this lighting with the studio lighting on so we switched the studio light off. We felt that the light didn't catch the model or really highlight any detail.
The images below show how we achieved these 'experiments'. Even though we did not use any professional lighting we still managed to create a model from using our mobile phone lights, which gave us a chance to start thinking about the positioning of the lighting.
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