Sunday filming, the last filming for "Stacey"

Christine and Dylan suddenly pull out on Friday for valid excuses., so only me and Kim went for the filming on Sunday. We didn't reschedule out filming and decided to go only two of us because we are worry about the upcoming assignments due might occupy most of our time, and also Dylan will be away from next Friday so he will still not be able to help out for the filming. And we got Kim's boyfriend to drive and Anthony to help out.

However, the filming on Sunday didn't go smoothly as we expected because of the poor lighting. As a result of considering only two of us will be going to film, we brought the dedo lights instead of the red head, which acutally led to a lighting disaster.

The weather on Sunday was not so good, it was windy, sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny. Most importantly, the sunshine didn't come through into the house as the first time we filmed, which caused the poor lighting of our footage.

The scene and the shot we were planning to get was the livingroom scene where Stacey is doing houseworks, wiping the windows and saying hi to the kids in the neibourhood.

We spent an hour or so to set up the lights, tried to light up Stacey's face, but the dedo light is just not strong enough to balance the sunlight outside the window. Besides, we also have problems of the heavy shadow of Stacey which caused by the dedo lights, as well as the reflection of the dedolights on the window.

I felt bad that I couldn't set up the proper light for the filming because I think the lighting is also part job of DOP's. We really should have brought the red heads:(

We still took some shots of Stacey doing house works and getting together with neighbourhood kids, and hoping that we will be able to adjust the poor lighting in the post editing.

Although it wasn't a satisfied shooting, I really learnt a lot, and have a clear understanding of how different the red heads and dedo lights is.