lighting and colour for my film

I a planning to divide the mood in two parts. The first part which is light and warm. I am planning to bring bright colour and warm lights with the use of tungsten light.

As seen in above stills from the films. We can notice the bright colour which bring our eyes into the character and bring comfort to eyes and the warm colour of tungsten lights... Which enhance the feeling of love.

For the second part of the films. I am planning to use blue light and light colour to highlight the loneliness of the characters. 

As we can see the use of blue colour and very unsaturated colours bring the loneliness and the sadness of the characters. 

small elements which appear in all romantic film

all romantic films have some small elements which can be seen in almost every film.

1. looking behind game = there will b a point in romantic film where the boy and the girl will b in different end of the road and they will look at each other but miss by few sec. and think the other person is not looking at them.

2. Season =  The rain and snow is one season seasons which appears in all films.

3. transport = they will be in a ride....bike , motorbike, boat, car , horse in a romantic drive.

4. kiss = All romantic kiss in the film specially at the end.

5. Entry = Slow mo entry of the actress.

6.  Jumping in water.

7. Lovely parents / rich vs poor parents.

8. Love songs playing when they hang out .... sad song during break up.

9. Party scene/ Dance scene.

10. Guy sing for the girl with guitar.
  

Research on romantic genre

I watched plenty of romantic film from around the world right from Hollywood hits Notebook(2004) to Korean film Always(2011).  I noted the main elements of all the film. So I can bring the same elements in my film.

1. Girl and boy are opposite nature.   Bad boy -good girl, Rich girl - Poor boy,  High fashion girl - simple boy.

2. They start with a fight and then fall in love.

3.  They are in same place but still not able to meet each other.

4. both have friends.... which only appears on screen for a while. 

Deciding the genre

Before starting the film. I started by the genre. It is more important for me because we make film for certain market and its always handy to research the market to see which genre is more popular in that market.  I am planning to make the film for Indian market .

"the Indian film industry is expected to grow to 138 billion Rupees by 2014 – that’s $2.28 billion"

Indian films are mainly based on romance. Like romantic drama and romantic comedy.  "The one genre in Bollywood that is unique and is what Bollywood is famous for is 'masala'. Masala movies mix elements of many genres but are largely action and romance."

hence I decided to make a romantic drama as the genre for my end of the year film.

Reference :

http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2014/09/03/bollywood-indias-film-industry-by-the-numbers-infographic/

http://www.ign.com/blogs/zaid26194/2013/12/29/10-movies-that-show-bollywood-is-more-than-romance-and-ott-action-flick

lighting green screen

We had two locations for green screen. The first one was for inside the space craft.

for which I lighted the actors for f8 key light. For back light i used magenta to cancel the green on both the actors and the set peace.  I lighted the green screen as f11. Three stops over. 

The second location was for cave scene and crash scene. 

For crash scene i used three point lighting as the sun as key light. 

For the cage scene I used only one source. One blonde coming from the top. 

I used dido to lit the child actor as she was not getting enough light from outside lights. 

on set lighting

The first day was dark ...and I was shooting in 50 p so its was hard to expose it properly and max we were able to get was 2k and couple of didos to light the scene..  We knew that Monday to Wednesday the weather was not good but we still decided to shoot ...then out of all day we have one good day to shoot. we I learn my lesson of changing the settings so we could get some more extra light in future. 

I used the blond as the main light source... and used the other two dido as back light and fill light. 

We didn't have big extra long flags or something thing to block the light but we still manage to blog the main parts as it was extremely difficult balance the blown out white from the sun and dark shadows under the tress.  

discussion with the director and the story board team

After seeing the story board. I suggested the director and the story board team to change the camera angles as there were lots of shots which was not showing the actors face and it was from behind so we were jumping from the main protagonist prospective to an outside prospective.