Three of us are collaborating and about to shoot a short (October 1st). One of us comes from a music background, one an editorial background and the other is a professional actress (she'll be casting but won't be acting in it because she is in a stage show at the moment, d@mnit - she's really good) so we have a good balance. Mind you, it might be useful if we had someone from an actual film making background but hey, everyone has to start somewhere.
Naturally, we expect the first short to be, erm, rather cr@p but we're going for it and are dealing with the usual pre-production issues.
At the moment, I'm playing with the idea of lighting. For the first short, primarily set indoors with very little movement, I am toying with the idea of a neo-noir look. I'm a fan of Bladerunner, Chinatown etc... and love the look which would fit artistically. However, this is clearly a bad idea because of the lack of flexibility it would give us in post and we should shoot as cleanly as possible and make any alterations in post but I'm tempted.
So any of you out there have any experiences with shooting with the neo noir look, how your decision-making process worked and how did this all come out? Also, any comments on the mechanics of this could be great.
Naturally, we expect the first short to be, erm, rather cr@p but we're going for it and are dealing with the usual pre-production issues.
At the moment, I'm playing with the idea of lighting. For the first short, primarily set indoors with very little movement, I am toying with the idea of a neo-noir look. I'm a fan of Bladerunner, Chinatown etc... and love the look which would fit artistically. However, this is clearly a bad idea because of the lack of flexibility it would give us in post and we should shoot as cleanly as possible and make any alterations in post but I'm tempted.
So any of you out there have any experiences with shooting with the neo noir look, how your decision-making process worked and how did this all come out? Also, any comments on the mechanics of this could be great.