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Living Out Loud

Scenes set inside the Louds’ home were shot at a house in Sherman Oaks that provided a nearly perfect match for the real residence. The living room offered a deep background thanks to the pool area beyond the sliding-glass doors, but the setting required Beato to carefully balance his interior and exterior exposures.

than I normally would.” Beato kept an eye on the sun. “I was getting nervous,” he admits. “We had one shot left when the directors decided that another problem took precedence. By the time we went back to the patio to get the final shot, there was no way to match the light levels. The last shot we got wasn’t used.” The blue skies and hard light of California serve as Cinema Verite ’s predominant look. Beato describes it as “a Kodachrome dream: colorful, bright and sunny.” This typically translated into tungsten lamps gelled with ¼ Straw or CTO. There was also a much cooler “New York look” (HMIs with a bit of CTB) that was used for scenes showing Pat visiting her eldest son, Lance (Thomas Dekker), at the famed Chelsea Hotel. (The interior of the hotel was created onstage.) At the end of the movie, after An American Family has aired and the Louds find themselves the target of intense ridicule and scorn, the California look takes on a severe tone, a heavier, bluish-green hue; instead of using lens filtration to achieve this, Beato planned to create the look in the DI. The Louds’ home figured prominently in the series, and the Cinema Verite team managed to find a house in
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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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