Exposure control is the way you would determine how the camera should appear, in terms of lighting. It's pretty easy to utilise and set up, as with most cameras you can just go to the settings, navigate to exposure and set it to your preference. We used this as it was hard to determine how bright or dark some shots were bearing in mind the days we filmed it was rather Bright and it made it hard to determine it properly. Though during our editing process, we decided to put a colour filter on the video to slowly show the change of the character's deteriorating mental state, at the beginning however we used it during our montage mostly to show age, and the change of these once populated areas into a ghost town essentially. With this choice in mind however, we still kept the brightness from the real footage to keep it clear what time of day it is, (Day time) which helps to further aid our goal with the exposure and lighting, in making it seem much more abandoned and different to what it might normally have been.
One of the features that were used in the short film is the camera lenses feature. To do this effectively though, we made sure that the exposure of the camera was clear enough to capture the image on the set / scene. As for Editing, we changed the colour of the video by adding a filter to give it a distorted look and much more aged look. This editing choice enhanced the camera setting as the colour change makes it look as though it were taken after a much longer time after the prior scenes.
Shutter speed is another camera setting that we had utilised. This determines when the camera sensor will be open or closed to incoming light on the camera lens. The shutter speed specifically refers to how long this light is allowed to enter the camera. For the footage that we filmed, there were some shots where it was 1/50 - 1/100 seconds. This was used for a variety of our different shots. Same with the change that we implemented for the exposure control, we also added the same colour filter to convey a form of distortion and also that aforementioned age. This enhanced the effect that it gave off, making it look as we had intended and also show how unpredictable things can be within the future.
Natural lighting was one of the main lighting techniques we used in the short film. In a way for us to achieve using this lighting, we simply refrained from editing the lighting of the scenes at the locations; we didn't use any features or settings to edit the lighting, keeping it natural and completely unedited. But when it came to editing for the montage scene, we changed the colour of the video, placing the "combat" colour effect over it. We kept the brightness of the video as we wanted to present what time of day it is as well.
Ambient lighting was another lighting type that was used in the short film. This was another lighting technique that was achieved easily as we used the light that was already there with only minor tweaks to the settings. When it came to editing the final version, we kept the lighting the same as we wanted the audience to be able to sympathize with the character. In terms of the speed, we sped up some of the shots slightly, mainly when the character was picking up the notepad as to save some time as well. This was when filming, as I was acting out the character, I did take a bit of time doing some certain actions and as the brief required the film to be between three and five minutes, we wanted to make sure that we had enough time to include all the significant shots in it without error, and ended up filming a lot of extra that we later removed.
Key lighting is another lighting that was used in the short film. This was a lighting technique that was used in the film mainly for the last scene. In order to achieve this lighting, we turned off the lights on the backside of the room and kept the lights on at the front side of the room so that when it came to editing the final version, we could the colour of the visual to the same "combat" colour effect, in which we could display how the character's mind has gone out of control and how he has gone insane. With this choice, I felt the enhanced lighting would convey the character's state same with how the lighting effects slowly seemed to deteriorate as each scene passed, especially due to the character being alone for so long.
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