Day-for-Night

These images are from my first round of tests trying out the day-for-night effect in my back alley. The process is pretty easy - white balance temperature between 3000k and 3200k (around incandescent temperature) and underexposed by about 3 stops or more depending on what's being shot. This worked in some instances and less in others as I think these two pictures show (with, I thought, the top one looking less moonlight than the second). I need to try this out with graduated ND filters too to block out that pesky sky. It's all good though, and i've only trodden in dog crap and been stung by neetles a few hundred times. Scientists were right, doc leaves do nothing.

Tentative Steps Into The Alley.

After a four year hiatus from filmmaking I have recently taken the first steps in preparing for my next (possibly not so) lone venture. The inspiration arose from a pile of shoes lying around in my front porch. I'm not sure why but these shoes gave me an idea that i've now storyboarded and am making the first visual tests for. I'm a serial doodler so if you're interested a section of the storyboards have been included above. Also take a look at my flickr account for the early day-for-night tests but i'll do a little blogging about that later anyways.