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A Saint and a Sinner
Top and bottom left: As children, Manolo and Josemaría make frequent visits to a chocolate factory where they receive tasty treats — and bits of wisdom — from Honorio (Derek Jacobi). Bottom right: The boys enjoy the comforts of an opulent upbringing.
tal technical choices that grew out of their conversations were the decision to light primarily with direct, undiffused light (except for the 1980s scenes), and the decision to keep the A camera almost always mounted on a three-axis Scorpio head operated by Beristain. The Scorpio head was often used in conjunction with a Technocrane to facilitate dramatic, sweeping movement. Beristain describes his approach to light as “emotional lighting” — letting the emotional content of individual scenes dictate his approach, as opposed to applying an overall style to
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the entire film. “Direct light is oldfashioned, in a way, but it gives me very precise control over what part of the scene to emphasize or intensify,” he says. “Considerable engineering and ingenuity went into creating the lyrical camera moves Roland sought for this film. In exterior situations, we usually used the Technocrane; for interiors, the camera was usually on a jib arm, sometimes attached to the Scorpio, which became my dependable steed. I was almost always operating, which is something I trained extensively for during my years in Europe.”
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The producers raised the possibility of shooting digitally, but Beristain says Joffé left the decision to him. “After we considered all the options and weighed all the practical and artistic factors, we decided to shoot on film,” says the cinematographer. “We were going to have many different cameras, and there were unknowns about the dependability of postproduction in Argentina, which made using a digital format less attractive. We planned to film our exterior battle scenes with half a dozen cameras and two Technocranes, which would limit
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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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