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Category : Lighting

19 Mar 2025
Feature film cinematography

Feature Lighting Breakdown, The Bar

In this post I’m going to breakdown a couple of shots from a feature I shot back in 2020. Nothing groundbreaking, a lot of this film we approached with the ‘keep it simple’ methodology. I knew we were always going to be pushed for time on set-ups, work in tight spaces and have a small budget for lighting kit. The key was to mitigate a lot of the problems we might face on-set sorted in pre-production, choosing the best locations […]

11 Apr 2020
Viking cinematography

Lighting Valhalla

Valhalla is a short film bringing awareness to the plight of men suffering with their mental health… with a Norse twist. Set in both the modern day and the Viking era. For this post, I have created a breakdown of my lighting approach to 2 of the scenes in the film. The Hut Scene The first scene is set in the viking period, we see our aging warrior hero entering his hut and kneeling by the fire. Fire was the […]