The past few days have been crazy, with the big shoot on Tuesday and all other work involved with college, so it's annoying that I haven't put aside the time to dedicate to my blog! This is just a quick post before the shoot today, where we'll get mainly interview footage.
Over the past couple of weeks we've been watching documentaries, both famous and lesser-know, to help gain an appreciation for the genre, but also to give us ideas and techniques to implement and emulate in our own pieces. One documentary we watched yesterday in class was 'We Are Not Afraid' (dir. Declan Keeney), a hard-hitting artistic look at the lives of those affected by the Siege of Sarajevo that took place from 1992 to 1996. Keeney's use of colour struck me the most about the film, with scenes splashed in red just as a subject discusses her dislike of the colour, and colder tones of white and blue.
During the shoot on Tuesday I made an on-the-spot decision to incorporate red gels in my studio lighting set up, something that went down quite well with both my colleagues and our peers who happened to come into the studio. Watching back the footage, the set is often bathed in a deep red or a warm pink, both feminine colours to a degree, which gave the look of the footage like a barbie house dressing room, albeit with a drag queen!
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