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Living Out Loud

Top: Gilbert ingratiates himself with Pat at a California resort hotel. Bottom left: The Louds and their friends attempt to stay “natural” on camera. Bottom right: Beato finds his angle. “Affonso has a real gift for seeing shots on the spot and executing them quickly,” says Pulcini.

decided to shoot this material with a Panasonic AJ-HPX3700 VariCam and use the digital grade to give it the look of 16mm stock from that era. The Panasonic was referred to variously as “the documentary camera,” “the crew POV” and sometimes “the 16mm POV,” he says. CinemaVerite jumps back and forth between what the movie camera sees and what the documentary camera
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sees. It was essential that the footage look substantially different so that viewers would immediately know which one they were watching. “The movie POV is composed, well-behaved, and we always used a dolly, or occasionally a crane, for that material,” says Beato. “The crew POV, on the other hand, is kind of a character in itself. We went handheld and did a lot of panning and zooming, in keeping with the style of the PBS series.”
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The onscreen documentary crew carries an old Éclair, but the footage incorporated into the film was shot by documentary cinematographer Sandra Chandler, who walked onto the set after the main camera operators, Anthony Arendt and Joseph Arena, were finished; she used the same lighting setup. “Given that I would be shooting handheld, I needed a shoulder-mount camera, and the VariCam is set up



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American Cinematographer - May 2011
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes
Production Slate
Living Out Loud
A Saint and a Sinner
First Dance
Decoding Digital Imagers: Part 1
A Hollywood Affair
Post Focus
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoriam
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up
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American Cinematographer - May 2011 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - May 2011 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - May 2011 - Short Takes
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American Cinematographer - May 2011 - In Memoriam
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