LIGHTING
When working with cameras, lighting is incredibly important. You can change the tone of the image depending on the type of lighting used, and how you use it.
The two types of lighting in photography are,
Available light, which are naturally occurring light sources, like the sun or moon.
Artificial light, which are light sources that are created for the purpose of the photo, like torches and lamps.
My Roles
For the Live performance project, due to the small class size we have agreed to take on various roles, which all fit out strong suits.
Myself, Izzy and Maria have decided as a group to work together to design and coordinate the set, aswell as the lighting.
We have spoken to reprographics and determined that the dimensions required for the backdrop is 180 cm high by 218 cm wide, which is wider that what the reprographics printer can produce. so we've circumvented this issue by designing the backdrop in a 180x218 layer then splitting it through the horizontal axis and printing the sheets as 2 separate entities.
Only requiring us to stick them together.
My other role in the production is 'Communication' to ensure everyone is on the same page and aware of what is going on at any given time, I have given the team a clear roadmap of tasks to complete week by week, as to avoid getting overwhelmed, avoiding the need to 'crunch' our work, and if one of the team members are not in on a given day, we know what task they were doing and their progress without requiring someone to chase them up. Aswell as the white board I have actively been updating a google doc file with everyones role, tasks and other notes, acting as our digital whiteboard in the event someone is working from home
For the Live performance project, due to the small class size we have agreed to take on various roles, which all fit out strong suits.
Myself, Izzy and Maria have decided as a group to work together to design and coordinate the set, aswell as the lighting.
We have spoken to reprographics and determined that the dimensions required for the backdrop is 180 cm high by 218 cm wide, which is wider that what the reprographics printer can produce. so we've circumvented this issue by designing the backdrop in a 180x218 layer then splitting it through the horizontal axis and printing the sheets as 2 separate entities.
Only requiring us to stick them together.
My other role in the production is 'Communication' to ensure everyone is on the same page and aware of what is going on at any given time, I have given the team a clear roadmap of tasks to complete week by week, as to avoid getting overwhelmed, avoiding the need to 'crunch' our work, and if one of the team members are not in on a given day, we know what task they were doing and their progress without requiring someone to chase them up. Aswell as the white board I have actively been updating a google doc file with everyones role, tasks and other notes, acting as our digital whiteboard in the event someone is working from home
As apart of the set design team it was my job to help create a backdrop for the show. By using my iPad and Apple Pencil stylus, Maria is going to draw a backdrop, using a array of geometry, shapes and lines, to create a backdrop. Our reasoning to design the backdrop the way it is, was because of an episode of React, where their blue wallpaper, was something we all as a team had really liked. We didn't want to copy React completely so we changed the colours and designed ours roughly based off theirs, with the only real similarity being the arrows.
*insert screenshot future charley*
After Maria had completed the design, it was my job to get the design into photoshop and ready to send to repographics. The issue arose when trying to convert Centimetres into Pixels, my laptop nor the college computers were powerful enough to handle a file that large.
We instead opted to redesign the backdrop, however only 1/6th of the original size, then Frankenstein them together 6 times over and add some more shapes and to hide the imperfections, this worked, aswell as adding the big blue title box with the word REACT, this hid the formatting errors and would also give the view less to look at to be able to pick out faults in the backdrop.
The backdrop had to be 218cm wide by 180 tall, however after the formatting issues and physical limitation with reprographics, we downscaled to 109 wide by 150 tall, opting to cut the image down the middle and attached the two separate sides together, all made possible with the help of the reprographics team
