Week 2: Desert in the Darkness

So for the last month I've been spending my weekends working on set for a film my best friend had the pleasure of bringing me on to work sound for. Sunday was our last day of filming which required shooting on location at Calico Ghost town just outside of Barstow. We ran into quite a few problems as the night grew longer, the van we rented began to sink into the sand multiple times as we drove around secluded areas looking for optimal places to shoot. We had to push it out multiple times, thankfully we had a big crew and cast so this wasn't too difficult. The last problem we encountered you actually can see pictures here, the batteries for our LEDs began to run out and there were no more extra ones left, so we opted to film using car headlights for backlights. It did a great job of piercing through the darkness (which is greatsince they're car headlights, I would hope they'd be able to do their one job correctly.) We got the harsh shadows that we wanted out of them and it worked to our favor which was nice. It was really eerie how dark it got out there, and it's always nice to be in non-light polluted areas and remembering stars exist.