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Australia’s cane-toad population takes center stage in the 3-D feature Cane Toads: The Conquest.
Lewis initially began shooting in 2-D when the production company, Participant Media, nixed his 3-D pitch, but 3-D eventually ended up back on the table, and Lewis and his cinematographers — Toby Oliver, ACS; Kathryn Milliss; and Paul Nichola (who was also the stereo and visual-effects supervisor) — had only a short time to put the logistics into place. Framing for an aspect ratio of 1.85:1, the filmmakers used Silicon Imaging SI-2K Mini cameras mounted on 3-D mirror rigs. A proprietary P+S Technik 3-D rig was used for interviews, while Nichola used “a fair amount of unconventional methodology to construct rigs for shooting underwater, from vehicles, off a crane, with deep focus and in macro shots, and, most importantly, to capture the toads’ POV,” he says. “Each rig was designed to establish the required interocular,” continues Nichola. “We could also converge slightly, but there was never an intention to fully converge because we knew we would finish with a 1920x1080 image size. The additional pixels provided by the SI-2K allowed a modest amount of room for shifting without enlarging. It wasn’t feasible or necessary to have
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precision alignment. The left eye was used as the master simply because we had to pick one, and we were going to put the right eye through a transform pass. “The key aesthetic for the documentary was that the lenses were almost always at the toads’ eyeline or lower — we often crane from a toad to reveal a new background vista,” he continues. To achieve these shots, Nichola constructed the “Mini-Rig,” which Digital Solutions’ Ben McNiell describes as “the best example of how we custombuilt rigs to be smaller than what was commercially available. We used SI-2Ks with a set of 1-inch machine-vision lenses from a U.S. company called Kowa; they cover a bigger image area than the CMOS chips, which allowed Paul the option of optically converging the lenses. That meant he could shoot parallel, which was another plus. The toad was typically about 300mm from the lens.” The Kowas were also used for macro shots, which Nichola achieved by installing an extension barrel to pull the lenses away from the body. Another key rig was a rigid sideby-side rig where the cameras could be set up and the pitch corrected. “That rig spent a lot of time on the crane for
Cane Toads: The Conquest photos courtesy of Radio Pictures.
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American Cinematographer - April 2010
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Letters
Short Takes
Production Slate
Down the Rabbit Hole
Weapons of Deception
The Final Frontier in 3 Dimensions
Sundance 2010: Expanded Palettes
Filmmakers’ Forum
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up
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American Cinematographer - April 2010 - Letters
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