LO4 camera and lighting settings to be used in a short film
To create the right atmosphere and tone for our film we needed to choose the ideal camera settings to fit the film, to do this we used a darker theme, to accomplish this we used a high aperture to let in less light and a lower ISO to keep the digital noise down and help refine the colour's and contrasts. However some shots needed a low aperture, this is due to the limited access to equipment, for example, in one shot we needed it dark with no artificial light. The problem is it becomes too dark to see what's meant to be shown, to fix this a low aperture is needed. https://youtu.be/0fvsm6AIkqE In shots with the creature in the back we needed to use the camera settings to adjust the depth of field, this keeps focus on the desired character and lets the creature go almost unnoticed, throwing the audience off when they think they could have seen something not right. Towards the end a shift in depth of field was needed as we had the focus shift from a character to the creature as ...