And your humble LD here is going to take a little opportunity to "art-fag"
about what we're seeing.
Here's an appropriate shot from which to touch on the overall design. With
every scene being in the same "cottage interior" at some indeterminate time
of day, the only real reference point I had in terms of light sources was the
fire. So the idea was to use the fireplace as a virtual origin of warms,
balanced from the "outside" with cools at the window and far side of the
bed, and generally cooler wash on the other side of the piano and from
stage left. And of course, a bit of pink in the bed area. In this scene
the "fire" has actually been turned on, not that the wheezy old orange
lightbulb inside makes much difference but you can see the directional
modeling on the actors even if the amber *does* come from above instead of
low down! A generlc "foliage" gobo shot toward the bed from over-stage added
texture in the warms that would hopefully lend a hint of flickering, romantic
firelight as they moved through it, without having to set up specific effects.
This wound up a little oddly patchy sometimes as they transited the stairs,
but as almost-backlight as far as the audience sees it probably doesn't
matter much.
I was reasonably pleased that a relatively few lights achieved a well-rounded
balance across a large area, with no noticeable dark spots and decent visual
suppression of the fugly walls and exit-doors behind everything, all in what
was essentially a *single* submastered look with no programmed cues in the
board. The "opening" bed scene was a little different, dimmer with deeper
colors and a stronger hint of the "night" outside the window and behind the
bed, but still on a manual slider. I was fortunate to have a board-op who
understands the value of appropriately "damped" timing and following the
pace of the story.
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