◗ A Wider World Peter keeps Tris in check when she returns to the Erudite laboratory and agrees to undergo Jeanine's tests. dramatic sequences. You seldom have the opportunity as a storyteller to translate emotional inner states into external imagery in this way. We wanted to find a visual correlative to an emotion." Ballhaus adds, "For the Sim scenes, we shot fairly wide open with the Leicas to get the beautiful focus falloff in an otherwise slightly cleanerlooking world - those lenses are stunning when they're close to wide open. The added benefit of shooting the Sims spherically was that [those scenes] were very visual-effects-intensive, and it gave them more flexibility in terms of reframing later in post." Ballhaus describes the Erudite laboratory as "a huge, open space with an enormous glass wall dividing Jeanine and the subjects. There are layers of glass and reflections, and at its heart is a main room surrounded by a couple thousand glass tubes." Culliton explains that within this main room is a section designed to make viewers feel like they are "actually seeing the machine think." A particularly stylized lighting method was devised for this part of the set, based on a combination of color-switching light projections and LED instruments. With regard to the latter, Culliton backlit the light channels with LiteGear 64 April 2015 American Cinematographer