THE SPOTLIGHT

This focused, hard spotlight that we use in the scenes before our shift keeps our focus on the patient in the opening sequences. It also mirrors the experience of being on the spot to self-advocate in the public health health system all while hightening the drama. 

A logistic issue this also solves is allowing the art direction of the space to fall off in the darkness, so we can still be shooting in St. Paul’s while making it seems as thought it’s a different location entirely. I know that the spotlight approach might lean us a little hard into darkness or drama, but it’s important to have a distinctive difference between the opening visual language and our shift so it is clear that there is a big change.