I’m very excited to finally share the first lighting breakdown of
@wittewievenfilm directed by
@didier_konings_art .
For those of you who haven’t seen the film, it’s available on NPO start!
INT. CHURCH. DAY.
What are the only light sources available in this time period. The sun, the moon (technically the sun) and fire.
So with this daytime interior our only sources are the sun and fire.
During prep our DOP
@luukdek en me came to the conclusion that we needed a large fire source from the ceiling and multiple smaller sources all over the space. Another important source was a ray of sun hitting our talent.
For the large fire source we went for a square configuration of 4 Infinibars. This created a large top source that still created hard and interesting shadows. Another benefit of these lights is the ability to have a pixelated fire effect that danced around the room.
A 600D pro + F10 came in through the top window to emulate a “holy” ray of sunlight, with was very fitting for the type of scene.
These two sources were the base for this location, now it’s time to fill in the details.
The art department brought in amazing hand crafted candles and placed them around the set, a great oppertunity for us the emulate more fire light! They also placed the outer walls, we could use the cracks bring in more daylight from outside.
As you can see in the diagram we added an light wherever there were candles, It was so cool to see how it all worked together to create this look.
The scene still needed more contrast, so we blacked out one of the walls and added a Nova 600 backlight for the close-up.
With those last details in place it was time to shoot the scene and for me to get a cup of coffee!
Thanks to
@aputure.europe for hooking us up with this amazing set of lights for this project
Next breakdown coming soon! :D
DOP:
@luukdek
Production designer:
@paula_loos
Art director:
@eefatwork
Lighting crew:
@daanpriem @k_dekkr @juliesarahphilipse
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