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This document provides lighting and sound considerations for shooting scenes in four locations - bedroom, car park, dining room, and bathroom. For the bedroom, dining room, and bathroom, the lighting will need to be artificial as it will be too dark for natural light, and loud disruptive sounds should be avoided. The car park location may have less than ideal lighting from street lights only and possible passing sounds from people.
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- 2. Bedroom • For the bedroom the lighting is a reasonable gradient for the shot. The lighting will most probably be artificial as it will be too dark to have any daylight coming through. • There shouldn’t be any loud disruptions or sound distracting anything or any characters in the shot.
- 3. Car park • For the car park the lighting may not be ideal as it will be dark and outside with only street lights to use to our advantage. • There may be passers by that create sound but there is nothing we can do about this.
- 4. Dining room • For the dining room the lighting is a reasonable gradient for the shot. The lighting will probably be artificial as it will be too dark for any daylight to come through. • There shouldn’t be any loud disruptions or sound distracting anything or any characters in the shot.
- 5. Bathroom • For the bathroom the lighting is a reasonable gradient for the shot. The lighting will be artificial as it will be too dark for any daylight to come through. • There shouldn’t be any loud disruptions or sound distracting anything or any characters in the shot