Action!!

bah...can't sleep, this morning coffee was too strong, figured id waste my time updating my lousy blog

Monday: came in bout 7.30, busy decorating my set and finally set up my lights around 11, well David did all the works, i just stand there looking dumb, since i don't understand anything, tried to study the camera's manual again...didn't make much progress there.
Finally i started shooting around 2 pm, and goes on until 10 pm, my hands all sweaty and hot, working under so many lights really feels like being in an oven, especially since today 's weather was pretty hot, not to mention my plasticine all melty and sticky, Kate suggest putting them on the fridge everytime before shooting.

I'm shooting on a widescreen format (16:9), because it looks good, and i can get a large scope of background in one screen (^^, well it's such a waste to be showing just a bit of the background since i spent almost 2 weeks makin it...that's one of the reason at least) plus, there's more space for me to put colours and light in the background, it really makes the screen looks lively and dynamic ^_^, it also looks cinematic...in a way...well i just like the format really...

I have 4 lights for my stage;
fill light (reflected from the silver umbrella thingi...i think thats a fill...isnt it?),
background light (well it's in the background behind my stage)- just to give more definition for my character, i don't have a key light tho...coz it's too bright and i lost all the nice shadows.
there's also a window light (it's a light with a die-cut of a window)--it's a very nice effect, simple but effective, it really looks like there's a window on the other side of the wall, which in fact there aint any... I also use a tube fluorocent light as a rim light (what is that?) from the below the character, it gives a cooler shadow and more definition, since the other 3 lights is a yellow light.

Well, can't really explain much on that, since i just started learning today.