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Design Practice Project: “Lost Love” by Leti Mortimer music video

So, here is preview of the shoot that happened last Friday in photo studio. Leti preformed her song in completely dark room.

I illuminated her from 3 ways. On the right to the camera there was a light with red filter on it and set to around 65% intensity. On the left to the camera, there was another light with a blue filter and with intensity set to around 80%. The third light was illuminating Leti from the front. I positioned it behind the camera and slightly to the right to give her nice soft shadows and depth. Also, this light was set to around 90% intensity and had diffusing filter on. 

Everything was shot on Canon 5D MkII with a 50mm f1.8 prime lens on. I planned to use Glidecam to get the shot perfectly stable. However, on the day of the shoot I discovered that it was broken and Media Services wouldn’t let me use it. Therefore I found a solution of using a tripod as a camera stabilizer. Added weight reduced the shake to minimum, but didn’t eliminated it completely. 

Also, 2nd problem was Depth of Field. It was very narrow and when I tried to manually focus, shot was coming out of focus very easily. Especially during close up shoots etc. I tried to use f-stop with bigger depth of field, but I would have to increase ISO of the camera over 800. That would result in a lot of noise, so I had to work with f1.8.

Next step: film model outside the studio and then composite everything together and sync it with sound.