Lighting designer meeting

We had a meeting with the lighting designer who will be working with us in the studio on our shoot day. He gave us some ideas about what we could do with different lights to make our video work and look more interesting and most importantly how they will work and what different effects they will create. We talked through each section of our video.

WATER 
For the water element he said using lots of different types of lights is important to create the underwater effect but if it works he think ill will look really good. He said we need lots of different shades of blues to make it look realistic ,the darkest at the bottom to create the sense of depth and the lightest at the top with hints of white to look like there is an opening in the water where the light is streaming through. He also suggested  a gobo which will project blue shadowed images on the water which is exactly the look we are going for to make it look natural and realistic. Here are some pictures of the types of light we want but hints of each one as we don't want the blues to be to bright:

Here is the projected gobo image that will be another layer of light.


WOODS 

Because we are filming outside and not in the studio the lighting designer said we wouldn't need that much lighting because first of all as we are filming outside there will not be much power so it would be unnecessary to take things we can't use and also we can use the natural light outside to make t more natural and less like a studio which is the look we are going for. We will need a few lights to take to light up hr face and dress but they are very easy to transport and to use and we already have them in the studio. We also hope there is natural sunlight on the day that will be streaming through the trees which is the look we love as we had it in our rehearsal and it looked great.


UV THEME 
As we will be filming outside in the woods on the same set as before  we will need UV lights to make the uv paint work and some smoke canons for added colour.
However from speaking to the lighting designer and Luke who is organising our shoot day they both said that filming outside with uv paint and lights on the dress and make up etc wouldn't work because we are filming in daylight therefore without the darkness of the studio the lights and the make up wouldn't react creating the right theme that we want.
So instead we will tone the theme down slightly so it is not completely random but keep the peacock colours a theme through our video (blues in the water, greens in the woods ) and use them in the studio lighting up parts of her face and the dress.

These UV photos are much more subtle and its more of a glow then very bold which is what we want otherwise it is to much of a contrast with the other two sets.