Day 88 Wednesday 25th April 2012 Fashion Constructed Image set-build day 3

Wednesday 25th April Fashion Constructed Image set-build day 3.

Another good day with the team working hard to experiment and finesse the lighting and the image. The list of changes, experiments and solutions is long and as the day progressed they included:

• Cutting a bespoke light modifying black paper band to fit to the space-light (which was eventually replaced with  flags).

Discussing flags and shadows (here the black bespoke modifier we later abandoned is still in place).

• Moving background corridor light.

Here Ian has moved a light to remove a shadow whilst still lighting the 'corridor wall'

• Swapping the male model light for a bigger light (before dismissing this after the test). We also colour adjusted this light to change the colour of the documents.

• Improving the black out/light control of the camera position by the addition of two pieces of scrap hardboard I brought in from home

• Creating external window light and testing gels to create desired lighting effect on the bricks (swapping the initial light for a larger one, using a reflector to bounce the light).

• Added two new lights for to increase light levels on props (one is a 150, the other is a Dedo) before testing that ensured no awkward shadows were created

• A changing area was created for the model, and the hair/make-up area was cleared and made ready for tomorrow

• Tested dress and tweed jacket under lights (The brown of the tweed jacket became somewhat lost in the brown of the set).

View from the Canon (Not the actual shoot camera hence the camera angle) to test lights

• Testing rain effects (and dismissing the concept). Test perspex off-cut was removed and our full-size section was finally fitted.

One of the last jobs on the whole set, fixing the perspex into the window. We'd been using an off-cut throughout the lighting test, this allowed us to test for and block reflections. The off-cut allowed us to test one option that we had considered, rain on the window. This option didn't provide us with a viable  result.

LH camera is being used by a Maidstone UCA student who is  recording the whole project and plans on producing a book on the project for team 1