To piece together what I've learnt about lighting so far, I'm going to make a micro short. This one minute idea will combine the use of close-ups, hard and soft light, staging for three players and tracking skills.
After a little musing and tea drinking I came up with the following concept.
The proposed film - The Dawn of Mime - will be spoofing a scene from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It will involve three mimes inquisitively approaching a PS3 and then miming playing on it. The idea/joke is that it is the next stage in man's evolution; his ability to amuse himself without electricity. Below is a storyboard and lighting plan.
The first four images are of a setup that I quickly realised probably wouldn't work, due to the amount of space left for actors and the direction of the light so it basically starts all over again with the set of images on the second piece of paper. The first two images on this piece are actually part of one long tracking shot.
In the back of my mind I had this video as a guideline for a lighting style. As a music video I think it's absolutely awful; pretty boring and budget with no real eye-grabbing qualities. However its one positive feature is its clever lighting with what looks like just one keylight. This produces the very nice effect of strong chiaroscuro on the subject; they are well fashioned by light, showing clear tonal contrasts with smooth transitions from light to dark. This is probably why they chose this lighting technique for this video as they clearly had little budget so they thought they would use a simple and reliable technique to make a presentable piece of work in a flash.
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