The character lighting project

We had to make adjustments for our character lighting project. From the beginning, we all wanted to focus on tense/thriller/scary lighting for our character. We decided to meet at Jen's work, via Holland Studio. Jen saved the day on this one. When we got there, two of our bulbs went out from the Lowell Kit. That meant we only had one light to work with. The space was pretty appropriate and we had the convenience of using other random lights we found in the studio. However, these lights were overhead lights and did not serve the same purpose. We were missing a fill light and back light! 

For our first scene, we had our talent walk down a hallway with a bunch of rooms. We used a drawing lamp that we set up in one room and opened the door so light wold flood the hall way. Then we used our  only key light in another door way and aimed it at the hallway. When our talent walked down the hallway, we had her stop at the second doorway (same place the key light was) and she came into focus. At the same time, Jen used a projector/strobe like lamp with a clicker that she clicked so the light would shutter similar to that of a flash on a camera. This was for our long shot. For our medium shot, we illuminated out talent from a dressing room. We had the key light placed in the same room and used the white umbrella to create a soft white balance. We used the drawing lamp as an attempt to replace the fill light and lit up our talent's face from the door way. We also used a reflector to cast interesting lighting effects on our subject. For our last shot, the close up, we placed all the lights we had in a room and filmed from outside in the dark hallway. We had our talent open the door just a crack and let the light flood her face.