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Hat Position and Lighting
Personally I find the shape of my head fights a position tilting back much beyond level and it would fly off my head with the slightest breeze. From the experience of having done some Stage Lighting and Professional Photography I can imagine that there was often a struggle between actors and lighting directors to push the hat up and back. Its a real challenge to fill in that shadow and see the persons eyes properly with artificial lighting and not put a horizontal line across the face. Its particularly true in interior scenes where much of the lighting is top down and it is often difficult to get a low position for fill light in front of the actor. Outdoors of course, shooting early and late avoids the problem of the sun being in a high position as well. As touched upon earlier, thats why hat positions tend to be higher in movies than real life.
Personally I find the shape of my head fights a position tilting back much beyond level and it would fly off my head with the slightest breeze. From the experience of having done some Stage Lighting and Professional Photography I can imagine that there was often a struggle between actors and lighting directors to push the hat up and back. Its a real challenge to fill in that shadow and see the persons eyes properly with artificial lighting and not put a horizontal line across the face. Its particularly true in interior scenes where much of the lighting is top down and it is often difficult to get a low position for fill light in front of the actor. Outdoors of course, shooting early and late avoids the problem of the sun being in a high position as well. As touched upon earlier, thats why hat positions tend to be higher in movies than real life.