Currently working on our next short, Gills.
Last week we ran some lighting tests, particularly because we were concerned about how our lighting would interact with water (or I was, cuz I'm paranoid like that).
I'd like to title this one "Hot Mess" (I let the water get too hot. And I was a mess)
I'm proud to say that I finally feel like the Mark III and I have gone from being acquaintances to "good friends". Well, maybe not good friends, but we'd definitely invite each other to candle parties.
There's still a lot I don't know, but I feel pretty good about the results of our tests. Quinn set up the lights while I sat in various locations and showed off my resting bitch face. Really, this was all him.
My biggest grief with all of our films so far has been lighting mistakes. Grain. Banding. It's painful. The pain mostly comes from knowing that, in most cases, it was something I could have avoided if I had known better. I recently watched Wolf of Wallstreet (which, I feel I should take this moment to say, "Do not waste your time.") and I saw nothing but grain all over that movie. I couldn't tell if it was because I had become so aware of it from staring at my own footage or if in certain scenes they just couldn't properly light Leonardo DiCaprio's enormous face. Seriously, if you see that movie (but, seriously, don't) poor Leo looks like he has ants crawling all over his face.