The Wedding (Not) in the Woods: Part 2 (page 2)
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The producer checks the effect and goes ape (in a good way). It’s wonderful! Instead of a dark hole behind the ceremony, we’ve got a magical glow of flowers, with dramatic pitch black above them.
Also, the spot up on the beam adds extra front fill on the bride and groom and back lights the pastor, which is great because he has a bald head with a fuzzy ring of hair around it. Now it looks like a halo.
The producer agrees to put the main camcorder under the fill light, to feature the bride. I’m expecting him to put a second camera near the key light, to get cover on the groom, over-the-shoulder on the pastor and guest reaction shots.
But No! Instead, he wants the second camera down by the guests, where he can pan the audience as well as catch the other stuff. The bride is not at all excited about one more piece of evil technology in her natural, environmentally sensitive nuptials, ho…
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