Geoff Boyle FBKS
Director of Photography

Bovril

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The only problem we had with this commercial was that it was for showing in winter and had to look cold and overcast and we were shooting in the one week of sunshine that England gets each year in the middle of August!


The first shot on the left we shot at night, bouncing light off 12 * 12's to get a soft overcast look. This caused too many problems with distracting drivers and blinding people :-)


By frame 3 we had adopted the approach of silking off the area we were shooting in and then adding rim light as appropriate. The problem with this approach became apparent when we got to this shot. We were shooting with long lenses to compress the scene but this meant that we had to silk VERY long areas to allow him to ride down the street.


We started silking this shot at 7am and eventually turned over at 4:40pm having brought in silks from every lighting company in London and we were using several construction cranes to support it all.


  • Director Steve Lowe

  • Producer Ron West

  • Production Company RSA

  • Colourist Mick @ VTR


 

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