Frame by Frame
Lighting an interior set with no windows typically comes with the challenge known as, "how should we light this thing?". Luckily the lighting team and I didn't need to do much as there were two circular, articulating lights that hung from the ceiling. They looked great on camera and provided enough light to kick off the white sheets of the operating table to give a pleasant uplight for the closeup
We filmed this scene on an overcast December day in Illinois. My Gaffer, Kris Gordon, placed an Arri M18 behind a diffusion frame outside the window, bringing up the ambient levels in the room and providing a directional soft light. A couple small LED fixtures were used inside the set to edge light the patient and wrap the light around Dr. Bryan's face. I dialed up the warmth of the interior movi
In that this series was to give information about the doctors as well as their state-of-the-art surgical practice, there were times were I decided to employ angles with very shallow Depth of Field. In this example, the story was about the patient's ability to successfully recover from a spine procedure; I wanted the image to speak only about the patient's newfound physical strength without visual
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