Matt - Sinta - Gym training

Director: Matt Pitcher
CINEMATOGRAPHER: ROSS METCALF

Athlete: Sinta Wardana
Short Form Story

Scene:

Gym workout:

Shot ideas:

Sled pull transition. - match cut to take off/ running at practise track etc.
Cole Trainer in shot, always behind her
ECU eye
Shadows
Drop down of camera or pass through or past the action for transitions
Hold static on some reps, in and out of frame
Grip camera to the equipment/bars
Really elevated shot, looking down on her
Rush in about to sled pull, grit and go - cut to park take off
Water streaming over face cool down.
Mirror shot.
Stylised texture and normal shots with counter moving light on tracks etc.
This is a great location to do a series of Portraits.

Time of Day:
Any time of day

Possible Cast:

Sinta
Cole (Trainer)

Location:
Sinta’s Gym (Sunday its closed - so this best day)

Production Design:

Bring a large mirror

Gaffer kit:

Black out sky lights
Lit mate 4 / Cream source/area 48 with skirts for light pools - how many?
Soft box/gridded large soft lights for key
Boom arm / combo stand with wheels for main Key light.
Prac kino’s or other fixtures TBD
Black woollens
4x4 floppies
Poly

Gaffer Notes:

Gym:

I have a hazer.
Will not be using existing lamps in gym.
Black out sky lights. No lighting from exterior.
Setup a 2.5k HMI as ‘window light rays’ (ie. use floppies etc to make a window opening) in far corner of gym.
We will need to rig 3x LED light fixtures to hang over the sled pull part of the gym. Will hang these with small chain link from the exposed steel beams on underside of the roof and patch power to them so we have individual control of them from the ground.
We will also rig some more LED batten fixtures horizontal to the gym walls as per diagram. There is power points on the walls ready for this.
I’m getting Paolo’s RGB small camera light thing which will be used as a colour pop in the BG of some shots, and may rig to the wall for the WS of the gym.
Will utilise Tungsten Dedo for flaring and out of focus accents.
So all thats basically the scene lighting down, now for the key light lets rig a 200w HMI in a soft box, with diff and grid to a menace arm on a solid stand with wheels. I want a boom length of around 3m. Add 1/2 CTO to the box as well. This thing needs to be fast to move around and we will basically use it to spin into the ideal key light position depending on what activity we are doing.
I would also want a 44kino 5600k or two ready to go for some soft top light and foreground level on some areas of the gym that will lack it.

Portraits:

Mainly 2x waterfalled kino's through a drapped 1/2 grit etc
Some with GYM BG some with Black wooden BG. What black woollens do you have in kit?
Also a version where we rig a top light to camera and it dims up as it moves to her. Its very front lit, single source, its for a story beat so its not the nicest looking shot but figure maybe a 1x1 flex or some thing that can remote dim be rigged to top of camera.

Bathroom:

Need an ICE light to use here. (image near the bottom of the page "mirror reflection shot") or i have a small 2' powered LED.
Would love a variation here with an extreme colour contrast (maybe orange like this). We can use Paolo’s light to help here I think as the bathroom is small and it should feel single source anyway.

Pre-Viz:

Lighting Diagrams:

Grip:

Ready Rig
Platform for elevated shot (there is scaff there)
Grip to fix camera to bars etc

Camera kit:

RED Weapon Camera
Diopter set
Anamorphic Lenses

Cinematography Keys:

Haze
Pools of light
Creating black
Scene lighting
Creating tones in the lower third of image
Col pallet
Shooting over crank/tighter shutter, always 40fps etc at minimum

Ref images:

Like the framing here. Its dominated by her head space and can play slighting with negitive space. Its a conflicted image with utilising a low angle but also placing her a bit negatiove in the composition. This conflict i like for moments.

I like the many practicles we see in this shot. They motivate her key light.

Use of mirror to empower her by ‘doubling’ her self.

Great framing and composition with practicles, Haze and atmospheric perspective.

Great angle. Nice to shoot through objects

Potential colour for the ‘top’ scene lighting’. Plays a bit more in the green side of the tint and gets away from the typical blue. Our grey walls should compliment this tone.

Another ethereal moment option is to play with a more extreme two tone colour contrast and silhouetting

Interesting natural light looking image.

Good example of close focus on the equipment and let here be ‘coming at it’.

Lens flares can play for some ethereal moments

Water / mirror / texture. Just a cool cut to within the mirror shot.

Mirror reflection shot. I love the grittyness of this image. Its not pretty. the mirror is steamed up, the lighting feels enviromental (reflected light). There is a lot of strength and determination shown here via composition, lighting and levels. There is a mirror at the gym we could utilise to do this.

Here is an great example of a wide shot that uses light pools to direct our attention. Silhouetting the talent work well here along with the atmospheric perspective caused by the haze.