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Left: Mathieson mans an Arricam on location. Right: Robin and his men encounter the enemy.
lighting a ‘candlelit’ scene,” says Mathieson. “I like candles to give a bit of exposure to the area they’re in, so I tried to shoot as wide as I possibly could with the zoom. Obviously, you could shoot on primes, but for speed, we really had to use zoom lenses, and pushing the 5219 helped.” Using large numbers of single-wick, double-wick and triple-wick candles on chandeliers and candelabras gave a strong impres-
sion of source lighting, but Mathieson notes that “you also have to put some ambience in the room. For that, we’d often use space lights very low down or simple batten strips with household bulbs hanging overhead. You can’t be too noir about it. Candlelight is actually quite soft, and it does fill a room.” Fireplaces were a useful source, particularly in King John’s sizeable throne room. “[Production designer]
Arthur Max put a huge fireplace in that set, and John asked him to make the back and the sides removable, so if we weren’t looking directly at the fire, we could put in a lighting rig,” says Martin. “We had a row of Six-light Maxi-Brutes behind the fire that we wired to a dimmer so we could pulse each individual bulb. That, with a combination of gels, gave us the desired effect. We could make it as
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Slings and Arrows (Robin Hood)
Desert Storm (Prince of Persia)
Very French Revenge (Micmacs)
Painting Towns White (The White Stripes)
Departments
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Land and Bread
Production Slate: Winter’s Bone • Harry Brown
Post Focus: Enhancing Frozen
Tricks of the Trade: Using Red’s False Color
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads/Ad Index
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: John Schwartzman
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