some stills from a lil behind the scenes film I made for a @friend_london video awhile back. directed by Matilda Finn for Bipolar Sunshine. go seek it out, v. cool. .
shot on my trusty Nikkor AI-s prime set (the 105mm was my mum’s from the 70’s!), i played around with a bunch of on lens diffusion and diffraction, which included an ornate whisky tumbler and a cool jewellers loupe that was a prop on another project. fun stuff. in combination with underexposed, overcranked, roaming camerawork, i searched for natural vignettes in the composition and big, diagonal flares to cross the frame. shutter angle tweak’d down just enough to make the practicals flicker, and we’re cookin’ 🎥✨ felt like the right thing to do. it’d be cool to do longer form bts, with interviews from crew in different departments. you don’t see much of that kind of thing, but i like it when i do see it. .
can’t take credit for how ethereal and cinematic the set itself looked of course, props to the dop and gaffer there 🙌 . the bts piece itself is on my website on my bio if you want to check it out :)