archived-videos Hidden Scene from Harry Potter and The Order of Pheonix

[Michael Rogers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5dYE5z21Zg&feature=g-upl

Hey all,

this is my first assignment for my advanced lighting class... we were told to perform match lighting to perform a believable composite. I think I did fairly well on the wide shot in there, but my CU is weaker..

Let me know your thoughts please, thanks!

 

[Caidh Mor]

Not a bad job, especially on the wide, though I would add a slight blur (maybe .3 pixels approximately?), and bring up the blacks a bit to really seal the deal on it.

The lighting on the close wasn't bad either; where you ran into trouble more than anything else was with the background. None of the shots from order of the phoenix used that shallow of a depth of field, so the backgrounds being the heavily crushed winds up being very jarring. Other than that, maybe pull back just slightly on the reds in the midtones, and you should have a convincing and quality scene.

 

[Ernest Worthing]

Nicely done.

But yes, the wide is much better than the CU.

Still, this is a good job overall.

 

[knightly]

The only problem I see with the CU is that the fill side of the face is brighter than in the original shots (and the key perhaps a bit dark)... more contrast on the face would have matched it better... but the lighting is wonderfully delicate in both as stand alone lightings.

 

[Sweetie]

Still a better love story than Twilight

 

[Michael Rogers]

Thanks everyone!

knightly - I used a 650w ARRI open face with a REALLY BIG softbox, I think it's like 6 ft (one of the few perks of film school) for the key and had a reflector bouncing it back at her for a fill. I also had some CTB on the softbox...

I love using that softbox, but it's a mess getting it set up.. especially since I could fit inside

As for the DOF on the CU, the reason the background is super blurred is because I had no CU footage to put behind her, so I took the wide shot and blew it up, and put a blur to disguise the pixels This was really fun... if you haven't done it, you should try

 

[knightly]

Light leaving a bounce will have a feathered edge that you could use as a darker fill by tilting the bounce off perpendicular to the talent/light angle of incidence (or move the reflector back farther using the inverse square dimmer). I'm impressed with how well that blow up worked for the CU

One of the ways to get consistency between shots is to use a meter to record your key/fill ratio so you can repeat it in each setup as a numerical thing rather than an eyeball thing.

 

[justinisfilming]

Not only that it was really funny, you did a great job on it. Not perfect, but it's very usable! The girl was a great actress too!

 

[justinisfilming]

BTW, where was the girl in the wide?

 

[knightly]

middle camera right... comped into the crowd.