This is the last piece of moving image I'll produce as a student and I want it to be good. So, I'm trying to prepare for this short as much as I possibly can to make sure it's the best it can be.
With preparation in mind, I asked James and Annie-Rose to come over to my house (also my shooting location) so we could do a run-through of all the major shots in the picture. A sort of simulation of the actual shoot to test lighting and framing.
My story happens in the timeframe of a single sunrise. When the protagonist awakes in the morning, it's still dark. As we follow him through his story, the sun will begin to rise until it is bright at the end of the film.
James, Annie and I chose the evening for our run-through. I hoped that the light at sunset would give me an idea of what it would be like at sunrise. We began with the outdoor shots to catch the light and it didn't take us long to find the best setup and the framing I wanted.
We moved indoors and waited for the light to fade. When it was dark enough, we simulated each interior scene. This part of the run-through was a little more difficult than the exterior portion. First of all, we had to work out how to light most of the interior scenes with candlelight. Our first attempts were a little low-key, but we found that increasing the number of candles does help a lot. If we had a working red-head, I might have used it.
The space, or lack thereof, inside the house gave us another problem. It was going to be difficult to frame interior shots because it's so cramped inside. With a bit of effort, we managed to find some shots that worked really well and I'm hoping that some of the tight spaces will help give us the intimacy I would like between the audience and Abraham.
I'm pretty confident now that the camerawork won't be a headache on the day of the shoot.
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