Today on the podcast we are looking at a recent TV campaign that was shot on the Arri Master Anamorphics inside of a commercial airplane.

There were lots of different challenges with the lighting, blocking, and finding the right camera angles.

This si the closest thing we will ever get to doing on a blocking podcast.  

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The Shot

The first shot we are talking about today was actually the final shot in the commercial.  Our wide shot on the 28mm Arri Master Anamorphic reveals to the audience that our talent have been inside a plane for the entire spot.

The Lighting

We lit the wide shot on the day first up so we could then work backwards for our coverage.  We used 3 6ks and 4 4ks to light up both the sun and ambient sky sides of the plane.

We used 1/4 CTS on the sun side and a slightly less intense diffusion on the 12x12s to get a bit more direction out of the 6ks.

The ambient side was left uncorrected for a truer white/blue look.

The Result

Behind the Scenes

The Shot

This was the opening shot of the ad and you can immediately see what the challenge was going to be.

We needed to frame each person on the plane so that you could not tell their location.  If we gave away the plane interior too early the gig would be up.

The Lighting

To create mood in each of the individual single shots we killed any lights behind the camera, brought in some negative fill in the form of 4x4 floppies then used the outside lights to wrap the key around to where we wanted it.

Here the 6k with 1/4 CTS through the 12x12 of 1/4 grid is doing the heavy lifting.

The Result

Behind the Scenes

The Shot

Another single shot of our second character.

The Lighting

This woman's position in the plane made her lighting the most difficult.  Not a lot of room behind her meant we had to lean her off the sofa to get a nice edge light in and we then brought in the neg camera right and used a Litemat 2L to help carry the key from outside the plane to her near side cheek.

The Result

The Shot

Our third character single shot.

The Lighting

The lighting in this shot is all down to blocking and camera placement.  Our conversation between 4 individuals had to be interesting and different enough to carry the ad for almost 20 seconds.  

This characters light would have looked much different had we positioned the chair in another location inside the plane.

In this spot we got the daylight ambient as the key light from camera right and we are using the 6k sun camera left as our edge light.

The Result

The Shot

Our final character establishing single.  The fourth member of the ad now has a place inside the plan and in the lines of the camera going forward.

The Lighting

Because his chair blocked most of the sky blue ambient from camera right all we had to do was adjust the sun side 6ks then add a litemat and we got enough shape out of him and the back wall to buy it.

The Result

The Shot

The most technically difficult shot of the day.

The Lighting

We had never looked directly out the window inside the plane until this shot.

We used our plane of dualling 6ks to wrap the light from behind our character than used the blue screen in the background to give us our sky color.  It also helps being on a 75mm Arri Master Anamorphic @ T1.9.

Inside is a bit of frontal litemat fill.

The Result