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The World’s
Most
Wanted Man
Zero Dark Thirty, directed by
Kathryn Bigelow and shot by
Greig Fraser, ACS, dramatizes the
hunt for Osama bin Laden with a
run-and-gun style.
By Michael Goldman
•|•
C
inematographer Greig Fraser, ACS emphasizes that
director Kathryn Bigelow “really excels at the run-andgun” method of filmmaking, and he experienced this
firsthand on Zero Dark Thirty, which documents the
decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden and the 2011
covert op in Pakistan that successfully ended it.
Bigelow says she knew early on that accurately re-creating the events, particularly the nighttime raid on bin Laden’s
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compound, would be “no easy feat,” and she wanted a cinematographer “who possessed enormous confidence to go
along with his skill.” She found that in Fraser, whose recent
credits include Killing Them Softly (AC Oct. ’12), Snow White
and the Huntsman (AC June ’12) and Let Me In (AC Oct. ’10).
“Greig was a real lifeline on a difficult production,” says
Bigelow, adding that their collaboration “had a spirited,
wonderful, giving and generous quality to it.”
Bigelow’s last film, The Hurt Locker, was shot documentary style, mostly on Super 16mm, by Barry Ackroyd, BSC
(AC July ’09). When she and Fraser began discussing Zero
Dark Thirty, the director said she once again wanted a handheld, guerrilla-filmmaking feel to the production, and she was
open to whatever format would work best. “I think the only
format we didn’t talk about was Super 8,” recalls Fraser. “We
even discussed prosumer cameras. I had tested various digital
formats for Snow White and had a good idea about the pros
and cons of each for a show like this one. Production was not
going to be a linear affair; we would be shooting in India and
Jordan largely without local support staff or a studio system
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - February 2013
American Cinematographer - February 2013
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Marilyn Manson’s “Slo-Mo-Tion”
Production Slate: House of Cards • Caesar Must Die
The World’s Most Wanted Man
War on Crime
Crumbling Pillars
Vision and Verve
Postcards from Poland
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Stephen Goldblatt
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American Cinematographer - February 2013 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - February 2013 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - February 2013 - Short Takes: Marilyn Manson’s “Slo-Mo-Tion”
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