"At random" - Short

In december, I worked again with plaisure with Chloé MICOUT, a french commercial director.
I wanted to test the Canon 5D MARK II on a little fiction, and this shooting was perfect. A poetic story with no talks.

We had to catch the caracters sensivity with a minimum shots. Lots of shots without motion, and some shoulder camera.
We shot on location in four sets for one day. The first location was a little bedroom. Chloé wanted a romantique picture with a pure light.

With my gaffer Jocelin DELAS, we make a light between a sunrise and sunset to reflect the ambiguity of the scene.

We use a HMI 575W with white diffusion to make the key-light, and two kinoflow to light some object. I like this exercise, because make a natural effect light is never easy and we work with subtlety.

We shot the rest of the day in external.

The second set was a market in Paris. During the pre-production, we choosen with Chloé the best place to shot the action. I wanted the actor was under the roof of commercial stand to control the light on actors faces.

I use a litepanel with half CTO to control the contrast on the face.

The last set was a street in Paris. I wait this part of the day with impatience because I don't know the capacity of Canon 5D MARK II on the night fiction.

I prefered to underexpose a little bit that to have noise in the low-light. So I shot at 600ISO and T2.8 with Canon lens.

I use just a HMI 400W with PanCake to illuminate the scene. We can shot on this street only fifty minutes because of light's battery, but with the light configuration we make all the shots.

In conclusion the Canon 5D MARK II make a particular picture. I think it is a good tool to shoot in very little set, or in difficult shooting situation.
For the moment I like the picture of Canon 5D MARK II. Maybe not enough organic in my opinion.
I wait my next project with Canon 5D MARK II, a fake-commercial very smart...