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100-25,600 ISO range gave him
greater latitude on night scenes. (He
never pushed the Mark II’s ISO
beyond 3,200.) He and his soundman,
Juan Bertran, traveled light, never
carrying a boom, camera rig or lighting
unit. Schwarz did bring a tripod,
however. “Even though there was a lot
of action, we always made a point of
trying to keep the frame somewhat
composed.”
In his camera bag, he had a few
Canon EF lenses: a 24-105mm f4
zoom; a 70-200mm f2.8 zoom; a
35mm f1.4 wide-angle prime; and,
occasionally, a rented 300mm f2.8 telephoto. He also carried a Canon TS-E
45mm f2.8 Tilt-Shift lens. “The TiltShift is actually used a lot in the movie
— it’s a style we chose,” he says. At
first, he used it only in the crime scenes
that Soto investigated. “Tilt-Shift
makes things look a little unreal, and
we wanted to put the audience inside
Richie’s head and feel that everything is

sort of plastic, like a pre-set game, and
only the bodies are real.” Gradually, this
visual syntax bled into other parts of
Juárez and beyond. “As the movie goes
deeper, you get more of this Tilt-Shift
and gradually sink into this nightmarish, everything-is-off feeling,” says
Schwarz. “Toward the end, we start to
use the Tilt-Shift for the musician’s
story. We wanted to make everything
connect, to show that it’s all a cycle.”
But the most important ingredients in Narco Cultura’s look are
Schwarz’s acute eye for framing and
small details and his intimacy with his
subjects. “This movie feels like my stills
in a weird way. The 5D allows me to get
extremely close to my subjects, and
that’s as important to me as the overall
look.”
— Patricia Thomson
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Editor's Note
President's Desk
Short Takes: 7x6x2
Production Slate: War Witch • The Darkest Day
Hello, Yellow Brick Road
Hell on Wheels
All In
6 Sundance Standouts
New Products & Services
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