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Daydream Believer
The filmmakers
utilize the "Mitty
Mobile," a tracking
vehicle designed by
2nd-unit director Phil
Neilson, to film part
of Ted and Walter's
battle over a Stretch
Armstrong doll.
and we tended to keep her key a little
flatter and bring it close to the lens."
Depending on the situation,
keylights for both actors were 2K
Blondes through a 12'x12' Light Grid
frame, or double-diffused Mini-Brutes.
Dryburgh tended towards larger diffusion sources, often using a 12'x12'
frame of Full or Light Grid. For the
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relatively small sets and locations, a
large diffusion was hung off horizontal
rail and run up to the ceiling.
By contrast, the photo archive
where Mitty works is dark and almost
womb-like. Dryburgh worked with
production designer Jeff Mann to create
a set lit almost entirely by practical desk
lamps, light boxes and overhead fluoAmerican Cinematographer
rescents, with 6K space lights adding a
bit of ambience.
Filming outside the Time-Life
Building was impacted by a very short
window of direct sunlight, thanks to
Sixth Avenue's skyscraper canyon. At
the height of summer, when Walter
Mitty was in production, that window
was 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Much of this
action consists of walk-and-talks
between Walter and Cheryl. "Those
scenes were very grip-intensive,"
O'Leary recalls. "We'd take direct sun
off the actors with some kind of 12-by12 diffusion or a 20-by-20 Source
Maker Grip Cloud, and then key with
large, soft sources on the ground,
usually 18K HMIs through Full Grid.
Many times we'd put a muslin on the
ground and skip a 4K or a 6K into it to
bring the source even lower."
"We looked at architecture
photography by Julius Schulman and
Ezra Stoller, who shot a lot of the office
buildings on Sixth Avenue," Stiller
remarks. "The photos all had a very
graphic feel and a great sense of composition, and Stuart and I talked about
trying to frame Walter in a similar way
for the first part of the movie - he's
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