Joshua Robert Cot

Shot this a couple weeks back for a feature called "2101". The film focuses on a futuristic metal pyramid-shaped device, so I very much wanted to design at least one shot to look like a pyramid. This shot was the most successful within that venture. We wanted to light the room without using a single light within the room. My wonderful gaffer and I lugged all the lights onto the roof and directed them down through the two skylights. We positioned the table and our first "bad guy" beneath the closer skylight, and our "prisoner" and second "bad guy" under the further skylight. I wanted all of the space between the two skylights to be as dark as possible, so that when the bad guys walked between them they fell into complete darkness and became silhouettes. This ended up working very well! The light set-ups coming through the two skylights were identical. Each had: -2 Softboxes with 180 watt fluorescents -2 Halogen Lamps raised higher than the Softboxes -2 LED Panels with Full CTOs directed at the talent. (This was pretty much the extent of what we had to work with on this film.) Shot on a 5D mkIII with a Rokinon Cine 35mm. Let me know what you think!