The lighting for our music video was crucial to arrange and get right, as we wanted to create a certain mood for our characters. The lighting for the dancing scenes was extremely important as we intended to show a silhouette figure for some of the performance. After experimenting with the lighting we found a lighting sequence that was soft and gave more elegance to the ballet dancing.
The video below shows the lighting and the camera filming the performance below. As you can see, the lighting gave our dancer a dark silhouette figure.
In the bedroom, where Ellen was getting ready for her performance, we needed fairly bright lighting as it was important to see what was happening clearly. We found the location that we had chosen to be ideal for the entire setting, including the lighting. However, the lighting when filming the phone needed to be dim in comparison to the shots of Ellen, this is so we could see the phone screen clearly. We created the dim lighting for this shot by simply experimenting with the curtains until we found the most accurate and effective lighting we could. We felt that natural light would perhaps make a change to that of most music videos that are filmed indoors, as they usually have mostly artificial lighting.
The artificial lighting used so we could see Ellen clearly was done by the spotlights above the mirror in the bedroom, which became an important factor in our overall choice when deciding and securing the location for filming this scene.
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