White Balance

The White Balance

To make sure that the colouring of our footage stayed true throughout, we constantly set the white balance by using the 'one push' setting on the camera every time we changed location but also when we moved the camera around the room.

This is because (especially during the kitchen scene) the main source of lighting changed frequently. From one angle, the main source of lighting would be the natural light coming through the window and, from another angle, it would the overhead light in the room.

To make sure that our white balance was set, we would hold up a pad of plain white paper for the setting to work:

Chayana setting the white balance

There were a couple of times where we had issues with the white balance. For example, with the kitchen scene, as stated previously, the main sources of light frequently changed, meaning that after filming one shot, we would find that the footage had an orange quality to it which contrasted with the previous shot so we would have to reset the white balance and re-do the shot. This added to our time.