American Cinematographer - February 2009 - (Page 51) “The movie was well done by all in the visual departments, but there was a learning curve, and I don’t think [the curve] was ever finished,” he continues. “We set out to do quintessential Frank Miller images, but to be ultra-Frank, everything should look as brazenly stylistic as possible. He can suggest an entire alley with just a black line, the edge of bricks and a white gash [of light] across the character’s face. Instead of that, we ended up with some super-real backgrounds. It’s closer to Eisner’s work, so it’s part Miller and part Eisner. It’s a hybrid.” To keep a close eye on the work coming in from the visualeffects houses, Pope visited San Francisco during post and sat down in The Orphanage’s “Bunker,” which Maschwitz describes as “the visualeffects hub of the movie, where [senior visual-effects producer] Nancy St. John and her crew kept it all organized and I kept it all looking right.” The heart of the Bunker comprises a DI suite built around a Nucoda Film Master with 2K projection; there, Maschwitz and Aaron Rhodes, the associate visualeffects supervisor and lead colorist, oversaw all 1,966 visual-effects shots, grading the sequences as they came in. The Spirit underwent a final grade at Modern VideoFilm, where Pope worked with colorist Skip Kimball to “darken the mids overall and make it more contrasty,” says the cinematographer. “In the end, some wanted a little more skin tone in the actors’ faces than I cared for; I liked it colder and closer to blackand-white, but they wanted it to be more reality-based, so there was that compromise.” All parties involved — Pope included — are proud of their accomplishments, and Miller seems to hit the nail on the head when he says, “What I really wanted to capture was the absolute enthusiasm and verve Eisner brought to The Spirit. We’ve got a panoply of digital effects, but the movie isn’t cluttered. It’s focused on the story and the hero.” I TECHNICAL SPECS 2.40:1 High-Definition Video Panavision Genesis, Vision Research Phantom HD Primo lenses Digital Intermediate Printed on Kodak Vision 2383 51 http://www.photosonics.com http://www.photosonics.com
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