Don & Katherine
Desert town, green garden, and a short film that stays close. Sound on.
Shade first.
Don and Katherine were married in Palm Springs in May, at a private property where the planting is dense enough that you would not immediately know you were in the desert.
Theirs is a short film, a little over four minutes, and it stays close throughout. In May the desert is already hot by mid morning, and the day was built around shade and the last hours of the afternoon.
Notes on the light.
Filming in Palm Springs is a scheduling exercise. From late spring the middle of the day is genuinely unworkable outdoors, and the light is hard and overhead on top of the heat. Everything worth having happens in shade or after four. The compensation is that the desert gives an evening unlike anywhere on the coast: no marine layer, a long clean sunset against the San Jacintos, and a sky that stays lit well after the sun has gone.