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“WE WERE ALL IN ONE ROOM ON ONE SET HAVING TO CHANGE OUR LIGHTING AS WE WENT ALONG.”
THE DP VIEW TIM WOOSTER
ighting-wise, Exam was without La doubt quite a job because we saw wide angles of the room in
the first lighting stage, and I
wanted to keep it looking inter- esting. I was using eight down- lighters on the desks, which gave a certain amount of light, but the ac- tors’ key light was coming from prac- tical light sources on the walls.
I had to light through them in order to get exposure, I put my own lamps through them with a bit of Perspex or sometimes a bit of diffu- sion. One of the things that really did concern me was that these would burn out on film. There wasn’t a lot I could have done about it, I could possibly take them down in DI, but I was really amazed that they didn’t burn out.
We were shooting at T2.8 on the camera, and they were 22 on the spot meter, maybe more, because on the wide angles I couldn’t get light- ing anywhere else. They look hot, but they didn’t lose definition like they would have had it been on HD, for example. I was amazed.
Photo main: DP Tim Wooster lighting his subject in Exam;
above l-r: John Lloyd Fillingham with Tim Wooster; Pollyanna Macintosh in Exam
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