American Cinematographer - June 2008 - (Page 35) the Mayan temple that serves as the kingdom of the Crystal Skull. There, they soon find themselves running down an enormous spiral staircase with mechanically retracting stairs — a practical, full-sized set built onstage at Sony Studios. The actors performed many of their own stunts as they navigated the 85' stairway, and Kaminski’s camera followed the action on a cable descender. “We had four actors running down the stairs and seven stuntpeople supporting them on wires, so there was no room to hide the lights,” notes Kaminski. “On top of that, the reset was hard because we had to lift everyone back to position. You couldn’t really walk the set; you had to go to the top of the cylinder and come down.” Dubin recalls, “The centrifugal force kept banging the camera into the wall. It took a lot of work to set the descent speed — too fast and it would hit the floor, too slow and it would miss the action. Jim Kwiatkowski did a great job figuring out how to rig the camera.” Devlin notes, “That set was complicated to light because it was like a big toiletpaper roll made out of steel, and the only lighting could be from the top. We wanted it to get darker as they move down the stairs, but we also wanted to be able to control the exposure. For the overall toplight ambience, we used 25 12-light MaxiBrutes wired directly into a dimmer with Socapex multicore plugs. We alternated between Medium and Very Narrow bulbs. Roch Dutkowiak, our dimmer-board operator, could selectively turn on the longer-throw bulbs as the actors ran deeper into the cylinder. We also used T5 beam projectors to highlight the rocks and the jaggedness of the stairs.” Deep inside the temple, Indy and Mutt find themselves in cobwebbed caverns, sets that required an enormous amount of light to create the signature crisp, deep-focus look. “Your perception of 35 http://www.flying-cam.com http://www.flying-cam.com http://www.gammadensity.com
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