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Cold Case

The emotionally remote Lisbeth is isolated in the frame until she teams up with Blomkvist.

production for more than 150 days of its approximately 160-day shoot, and because of script changes, he ended up reshooting several of the sequences that had been filmed during the first week. The ambitious production
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involved locations in Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and England and stage work in Los Angeles. (Some minor process work was shot onstage in Stockholm.) “We started in Stockholm, and then we spent two weeks in Zurich
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before the Christmas break, and then I went back to Los Angeles and started prelighting stages,” recalls Cronenweth. “After our holiday break, we shot for about three months onstage in L.A. During that time, David and I planned the next phase of the shoot, and I got the same prep time as everyone else before heading off to England for three and a half weeks, and then back to Sweden. “Overall, the weather in Northern Europe made for the biggest challenge,” he adds. “We experienced severe winter storms as well as a very hot summer in Sweden. The cold was the hardest, though.” Fincher had used digital capture on his previous three features, Zodiac (shot by Harris Savides, ASC), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (shot by Claudio Miranda, ASC; AC Jan. ’09) and The Social Network (shot by Cronenweth; AC Oct. ’10), and he decided to do the same on Dragon Tattoo, selecting Red Ones upgraded with the Mysterium-X sensor. Red’s new Epic was just becoming available, but using it as the main camera posed too many problems when the shoot began, according to Cronenweth. “At first we had a hard time getting cards for the Epic,” he recalls. “In addition, at that time, all Epic footage had to be sent directly to Red for transcoding before it could be sent to



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American Cinematographer - January 2012
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: String Theory
Production Slate: The Descendants • ASC Awards Preview • HPA Awards
Cold Case
Animal Instincts
Lord of War
Go with the Flow
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Rodrigo Prieto
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