Gel Test

  To prepare for my shoot, I wanted to test out how the bedroom and it's lights worked with the blue and pink lighting gels I wanted to use on my shoot. I originally tried mixing red and pink gels - thinking that the red would provide a warmth, however I found that the colour wasn't strong enough and that completely pink worked a lot better. 

half Pink (002) gels and half Red (111) gels

completely Pink (002) gels

completely blue (141) gels

half pink and half blue gels

 I have decided to begin by lighting with three blue gels and one pink gel to brighten the room. I am using the lights in the room as they give an extreme, naturalistic light.

 In order to create a half and half look with the pink and blue lights, I needed to include a blue gel on a lamp pointed at the subject in order to get the colour necessary and have the effect in the shadows that worked so well.

To acquire the extreme pink used in the latter half of my film, I used all four of the pink gels.