Lighting

 

In order for our advanced portfolio piece to be as successful as possible, we needed to ensure that our main text met our main ideas. With this in mind, we had to ensure that our shoot was at night. This was firstly because we wanted our narrative to meet the lyrics of the song. Lyrics such as 'ghostly enemies' and 'ghoulish entities' suggest that the song has a horror theme to it, therefore filming in the night is a good idea due to the common conventions found in the horror genre. In addition, the lyrics 'So hold it in cover up, pull up your sheets your sheets' suggest that the character is in bed, or asleep. These two aspects combined suggest that the character is having a nightmare.
We considered this fact largely, and concluded that filming at night would have the most powerful and evident effect.
Our lighting rig was rather simple, however extremely effective. We used several night torches in order to form a 'global illumination' effect. We did this by hanging the torches from trees just outside of the shot. This effect meant that the torch was not directly pointed at the actor, which would make it look like a spotlight, and not a simply lit set.

We used the torches so we could successfully film in the dark. This was due to the fact that darkness was completely relevant to our theme and to match the almost gothic conceptual vision of our music video.

By Jack Jolly