Lightning

Following up on Malkevick’s article on lightning, designing this for the location when shooting Sneaker Spastic raised questions as which lights to use, do we need a generator or can we do it just using Flexifill? When casting and rehearsing we could see how the light fell on the actors face, which light source to use and how to calculate the physics of volts.

While shooting outdoor, it is important to know which direction the sun goes and where we will have to place the actors in accord with this. Malkevick’s article here tells how to differentiate daylight scene and Nykvist’s explanation of the shadow that would be good to practice. As we’re shooting in partly in daylight and in the evening, we decided to not use lightning equipment but the flexifill instead. The light will fall on the actors faces here and where it doesn’t ‘fill up enough’ we will use the flexifill.

The exam providing questions upon crash zoom and how to adjust the focus from point A to point B showed the massive amount of choices we have when shooting outside for the depth of field. When shooting in a dead end, we will experiment this with objects, props and the actors.


Learning about the safety rules of lightning shows how aware we must be when putting the lightning equipment together and when turning it on.