Seven Days in Utopia trailer

[David Mullen ASC]

A small indie movie I shot in Texas last summer now has a trailer online:
http://www.sevendaysinutopia.com/video

Shot in 3-perf 35mm Panavision, Primo lenses, Kodak stock.

 

[tinx]

Looks great!

For that raining scene, did you back light the falling water?

And how did you get that water rippling effect on that shot with the 2 characters on the stone bridge?

 

[David Mullen ASC]

We were between some trees and I had two 20'x20' silks overhead (which was not enough to cover the green) so the rain was somewhat backlit by the bright sky behind the trees, otherwise I didn't do too much lighting, just some HMI fill.

I bounced a small HMI (maybe a 1.2K HMI PAR) off of the water under the bridge, with a top flag to keep the direct light off of the bridge, so it was lit by the reflection of the HMI PAR off of the water's surface.

 

[tinx]

lighting diagrams?

lighting diagrams?

Awesome.

I was wondering also-- do you make lighting diagrams during prep for a film?
If so, how often do you stick with the plans?

And do you have any samples from any of the films that you've done?

thanks,

t

 

[David Mullen ASC]

I might do a quick sketch for a particularly big set-up coming down the road, but the only real lighting diagrams I've done has been for soundstage sets in pre-production, for all the rigging that has to be done.

Not sure what you mean by "samples"... my website has still frames from some of the movies I've done.