· Stage Day EXT

BIG LOVE Backyard Scene (David Mullen)

-- Spacelights for fill, 20K & Dinos on either side of stage for sunlight effect. Expose for shade, sunlight 3 stops overexposed. And rather than light the faces in the backyard scenes with extra units (other than the overhead space lights), use large/small bounce cards from low to just reflect some of the "sun" back into the faces

-- devise ability to have not only a day & a night look, but also different times of the day by gelling the sunlight CTO & using more blue spacelights

-- when seen from indoors, background cyc/trees should be overexposed by more than 2 stops by spotting all my lights on bushes, grass, the backing, etc

-- 250 spacelights, Tungsten, every 3rd with 1/2 blue, blues wired separately for control

-- fan behind trees, tele lenses for less focus on BG

The only problem I see is getting sick of the "sun" always backlighting a scene in every angle... yesterday I tried shooting the reverse angle in front light with just a single 20K for a crisp hard sunlight look. Seemed to work fine but there are limits to shooting in frontal hard light with a cast that I'm supposed to make look good all the time. I could go for an overcast look I suppose, with just the cool overhead spacelights on, but these scenes are intercut with scenes shot outside in the California sun, faked for sunny Utah. So sunny seems to be the right look for the interiors.