American Cinematographer - February 2009 - (Page 31) Left: Coraline encounters three ghost children on one of her forays into the Other World. Below left: Chris Tootle animates the ghosts, who were shot in a separate pass. The models are attached to a motion-control rig that also carries lights that create interactive illumination for Coraline. Below right: Chris Peterson’s crew sets up a down angle of Coraline for the scene. 3-D effect at the wide end while making it easy for the audience to fuse left and right in the close-up. We also tried animating IO settings on locked-off close-ups, hoping to get an effect as startling as Hitchcock’s simultaneous zoomand-dolly trick. For better or worse, it is barely noticeable — viewers unconsciously adjust to compensate. Our production cameras comprised 38 MegaPlus EC11000s and eight Nikon D80s, and our primary lenses were Tamron and Sigma zooms and Nikkor primes ranging from 14mm to 105mm. With very few exceptions, we did not compromise lighting and camera- work for 3-D constraints. Contrast and depth of field remained useful creative tools, requiring just a little extra care, as did camera movement. We used composition, color, focal length and filtration in a wide, unrestricted range, concentrating on storytelling. One of our larger scenes American Cinematographer 31
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