Lighting -
I knew i wanted rather low key lighting to make it very dramatic. I would like one harsh light coming from above and behind to simulate the sun and the beams shining through and a more diffused light to bright out the features of the dancers.
One of the things i have learnt during my research is due to absorption of light buy water the lower down you get the more unclear and darker the light becomes. If we wanted to have the effect that the dancers are deep under water it might be nice to focus the light more toward the top of the screen.
It also absorbes light from the red end of the spectrum first so if not directly lit up reds and oranges appear white
Being underwater also adds a blue colour cast to everything so we need to use a filter if we wanted retain some of the warmer tones and colours
I think it would also be nice to try and capture some mirror lighting towatrds the top of the water. This is when the might bounces off the surface making it look like a mirror
Camera -
No matter what camera we use i think getting the white ballence right especially under water can completely change the look of the film, here is an example of how different lighting temperatures make water look.
For this we want the dance to be in slow motion and very still and floaty so we are most likey going to use a go pro as they film in 180p 120fps how ever there are several issues with using a go pro like it dosent have an adjustable lense or focus so we would be stuck with one depth of feild and focus.
it aslo as it is very small would be very shaky when help in my hand underwater, so we would have to look into underwater steady cams or harness.
we also cant see the footage back until after we have filmed and are out a computer so will take a great deal of story boarding and rehearsing and communication to make sure we trust ever shot to be perfect which i am not sure we have the time frame left to do.
There are a couple of cameras in stores that would alow us to film in slow motion but in 720p and we would have to find someone the get waterproof housing for it .
another good option would be to use and DSLR they would allows us to film 720 60fps and can have waterproof housing but also would be a lot lighter under water and easier to control and be stable and might actually give us the best footage as we can interchange lenses.
movement with the dancers
as we haven't had chance to meet the dancers yet we dont 100% know how the dance is going to go how ever molly is going through some basic story boarding ATM then next week we are going to meet up and go through it.
I have a very rough idea of how i want the camera to move. For the beginning it is quite rough and tumbling so i want to do that with the camera too maybe in opposite directions to the dancers to make it quite disorientating and give the simulation of a crash.
As the rest of the film is quite slow and intimate i think it would be quite nice to get involved with the dance for example if the dancer arches backwards i could be abve them and move back and forth with them.
I think there are going to be a lot of little details in this film that capture the emotion of the dance so i would like to use a lot of moving closes ups maybe start at the top of the body and spiral its way dow the two people down to there toes.
I also would like to capture the movment in as little cuts as possible as it feel it would flow nicer. So i would want to use panning and camera movement to keep the piece flowing .
I also looked at this website which told me alot about saftey, housing , lighting ETC http://www.kftv.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Underwater%20filming%20guide%20-%20PDF.pdf
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