Andrew Thorley

Aww thanks for the guidance guys, I really really do appreciate it. Hopefully i'll be able to conduct some tests within the particular location prior to the production (either Saturday or Monday) nothing fancy really just camera/light placement. I'll pop my results onto this thread accompanied with my blueprint (hahaha no idea what you call it maybe a lighting treatment). And hopefully you guys could give me some pointers (thats if you don't mind). Many thanks A.Thorley.

Hello all, In the coming weeks I shall be over seeing the lighting and camera operation for my final year project. Now ive been making short films for a few years- ten in total. Anyways, with the exception of one short film I had never utilized a lighting kit before. This particular film died during the second day of filming due to my inexperience with utilizing an artificial lighting kit and that the scene in question was filmed in a remarkably small kitchen. See link below for samples. http://youtube.com/watch?v=444vdins25o Due to the small space and using two lamps (one fill, one key) resulted in over exposure and thus added to my embarrassment and I decided to kill the production. (this was a personal project where I undertook roles of director,lighting ect ect) Which brings me to today, in the coming weeks I will be shooting in another small location (living room approx 6 meters wide and 10 metres long). This particular room will lay host to 2/3's of the script entire length. I will be conducting some tests (I.e camera placement/lighting placement) but to be honest i'm completely bricking it. Ive been reading a few books on lighting (gerald millersons : lighting for television & film ). its within the pages of this book where I seen a passage stating that a fill light should be at least 3 metres away from the subject. Is there any truth in this., because I know for a fact that there is no way I can get those three metres out of the room. And to top it off my director (and fellow student) demands crisp looking images which, I dont think I can deliver unless I turn the gain way way up on the camcorder =(/ Any advice.? A.Thorley

for a camera that costs 19 k (plus whatver for attachments) i have to say that i'm impressed. Although i wasnt too keen on the softness of the image. all that aside it would be nice to see someone make use of the device and make something which isnt a techinlcal test. Drewskie

well hello there ladies and gentleman, I'd firstly like to apologise for subjecting you "the viewer" to that rather poor excuse of a film "Fanny". To be perfectly honest i don't know why i uploaded it onto the internet, I guess I should have used it as a personal reference point or at least a guide on not how to "do things". But then again I do like my works being criticized =D As for labelling the genre to experimental, well i put my hands up but when i get thinking about it I don't think there's a genre called "shtty crap films" or is there =P. Thanks for taking the time to view the film, and i really do mean that and hopefully my next offering won't be as dire as this one. A.Thorley p.s she did have an abortion

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Synopsis___ "An experimental short film telling the story of Fanny, a young women who suffers from severe bouts of OCD. These episodes are triggered by her domineering father, whom years previous forced her to make a life changing decision......." i had to put this clip on the dreaded Youtube site, although it hasnt done that much of a bad job compressing the footage... any feeback would be appericated =D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlWNwm3r4RI Andrew thorley