Lighting And Set Design

Inspired by the music videos for Talana's 'Gemini' and AlunaGeroge's 'Just A Touch', during our technical demonstration we tried to replicate some of the lighting from scenes in these videos.

Using the school's studio facilities, the Leap Frog lighting desk and a Canon video recorder, we captured some test footage of our attempts to imitate the lighting layouts.

We went through a few designs, testing whether the subjects looked when best back lit, flooded with light or in a variation of colour combinations. Below are a couple of stills for when we were trying different things.

To give an example of how the footage turned out on camera here is a short video of clips captured during the testing

We decided not to use the coloured lighting for the white backdrop scenes as the infinity effect we were going for was lost because the light weren't bright enough. The black and white scenes however worked really well and so we decided to use them for our backdrops. The only issues with lighting was that Vivian and I had such different skin tones, if we made it too bright I was white washed and if we made it too dark Vivian was too dark although I think our group found a good balance.