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everything. We brought in most of the lighting, gelling most of the units with Rosco 90 Green and Storaro Orange. We had robotic Mac 2000s projecting patterns and colors throughout the club, many pulsing Par cans, and a few strobe lights. As Uxbal enters the room, he is bathed in ultraviolet ‘black light,’ and we shot without a UV filter on the camera, which creates a hazy, atmospheric, indigo light that contrasts with the orange and green of the first part of the scene. I also used a video projector with bubbly images for one of the strippers climbing up a wall. To emphasize the otherworldly feel, we wanted more dramatic lens flares, so we used the special Panavision C-Series ‘Flare’ lenses in the club. I also used these lenses for the scene after the club, where a drunken Uxbal goes back home to discover that his son has been left alone by Marambra. What about the very saturated blue light that bathes the scene when
Uxbal talks to the woman in the booth? Prieto: We lit the booth with two 4-by-8 Martin LC series RGB LED panels that we positioned overhead. We could program the panels with digital video images, and I ended up choosing waves of colors. What I liked about it was that it didn’t have the hard edge of standard nightclub lighting — there’s a softer texture to the light — and we could shift the colors as the scene progressed. Mostly, I lit that area with this sort of blue cyan with waves of purple that I felt was more in tune with Uxbal’s despair, until a red light flashes as the music changes and they move to the dance floor. Mirrors seem to be a recurring motif in the film. They figure in several scenes, including the last one. Prieto: We didn’t make a conscious decision to use mirrors, but I think that the feeling you get throughout the movie is like Through the Looking Glass, as though the mirror is another
reality. Peering into another dimension is what Uxbal does; it’s his gift. We took that all the way in the last scene, which is the ultimate mirror shot. But we can’t talk about that because it would be a spoiler! ●
TECHNICAL SPECS
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Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: “Eye of the Storm"
Production Slate: The Tempest • All Good Things
Letting Go
Tough Love
Back to the Grid
A League of His Own
Post Focus: EFilm at Universal• HPA Awards
Filmmakers’ Forum: Jody Lee Lipes
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoriam: Michel Hugo, ASC
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Jack Couffer
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American Cinematographer - January 2011 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - January 2011 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - January 2011 - Short Takes: “Eye of the Storm"
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American Cinematographer - January 2011 - Filmmakers’ Forum: Jody Lee Lipes
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American Cinematographer - January 2011 - International Marketplace
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American Cinematographer - January 2011 - In Memoriam: Michel Hugo, ASC
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