Journal
Notes from the set
One a month, no news
Lighting notes,
call sheets
and the odd
confession
How we light skin, why we shoot tethered, what a film crew adds to a stills day. Written by the people who do the work.
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Archive
Earlier notes
Production
4 min
The call sheet we send before every shoot
One page, sent 48 hours before call time. What goes on it, and what we have learned to leave off.
Process
5 min
Why we still shoot tethered
Every frame lands on a calibrated screen as it is shot. It slows nothing down and it saves reshoots.
Post-production
7 min
Grading a campaign so it survives twelve markets
One grade, many screens and papers. How we keep a campaign's colour consistent from phone to billboard.
Content
5 min
Half a day, forty frames: a content day, minute by minute
Three sets in rotation, two shooters and a plan to the minute. What a month of posts looks like from the inside.
Film
6 min
What a film crew adds to a stills day, and what it costs
Adding motion to a stills shoot is cheaper than a second day, if you light for both from the start.
No pitch deck. A conversation.
Every shoot starts with a twenty-minute call about the product, the date and the light.
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Theo Bran
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