Production

On Wednesday 5th December, Lauren, Olivia and myself booked out the studio for the afternoon so we could do our final shoots for our film still. However, I think we underestimated how long it would take to do all three of our shoots, as when it came to do mine, as I was last, we only had approximately 30 minutes left until the end of the day. To overcome this problem, the three os us worked together efficiently to get it done in the time we had remaining. I did the makeup on Lauren, as I was using her as my subject in my film still, meanwhile Olivia with the help of David set up the lighting and the setting – as we worked together this saved time instead of one of us doing everything. My lighting set up for my final shoot was different than by practice shoot, as this time I used two lights on each side as using a softbox and a reflector didn’t lighten up the left hand side of the face like in the original film still. Using two lights, a brighter one of the right hand side and a less brighter one a bit further away on the left hand side to create a slight shadow on the left side of Lauren’s face. This took us about 20 minutes, and then I started shooting. Capturing the right angle and having the subject in the correct position, posing the same expression was rather challenging. Causing the shoot to go over the time limit we had.

Here shows the lighting used to light up the left hand side of Laurens face, as you can see its at a bit of a distance creating soft shadows on the face. David is holding the picture as a reference so I can get the correct angle and position of Lauren’s face.

Here I am doing Lauren’s makeup to create the same look as Mia. I used eyeshadow and mascara to create to same look of Mia’s eyes, as Mia’s makeup was quite minimal. In addition I used fake blood to create the bloody nose.

Here shows the set up of the shoot, I used a chair with a white sheet over the top to create the ‘sofa’ seen in the original shot. I then used a black back drop and white board to create the split black and white background. With the reference of the image attached to the tripod this made it easier for me to get the shot I was looking for.