MattC

Thank you very much, and please I posted this FOR the criticism!! I'm not sure I understand the shadows part, but I'll look at it some more and try to figure it out. I hung a blind from a mike boom and shot a light through it, I probably did it wrong. As for the flat lighting, I did see that. I lit the short by eye and set things up by looking through the viewfinder and it didn't come out as I thought it would, but it came out pretty close so I do need to work on that. I didn't use any gels or flags or things because I don't have those yet, so my only control was barndoors and distance. I'm going to make some flags and get some gels and try to position my lights better. I did put little spots on the crystal (the candlestick, carafe and ashtray) but didn't think to use a gel, as I didn't have any, I will get some and try that. Is this what you mean by a "pepper"? Thanks again! Matt

Ok it's my first short of any kind. _I bought a light kit and decided to try lighting in sort of a Film Noir style. _Sometimes I succeeded sometimes I failed. _Please let me know what you think. For background I was the only crew on this as well as acting in it so most of the camera shots are static. I did do a rack focus from a carafe to a glass but I don't know if you can see it. Also I did a slight zoom in one scene where only my girlfriend was in it. I shot this B&W in 24p with a shutter speed of 48. It was all lit with a Lowel DV Creator 55 light kit. I wrote the orchestral music. The jazz song is one that was written by Oliver Nelson and it is called Stolen Moments, I'm playing sax (poorly). This really wasn't meant to be seen - to be honest it wasn't meant to be a short - just an exercise in lighting - but one scene led to another and I decided to use it as an exercise in editing as well. This is the first "movie" type thing I've ever made so I expect to have made many mistakes and would like whatever criticism you can muster. I've already received some feedback that my pacing is a little off in some places so I'm going to work on that. You can download the file from here: http://homepage.mac.com/matthewjcherry/.Mo...20the%20Gig.mp4 MattC