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Alien drives a boat into the pier with the masked Candy and Brit at his side in
one of the film’s final scenes.

driving. I used a radio to talk to Ashley and
Vanessa inside to help the speed of the car
match the action in the diner. For me, that’s
the shot of the movie. It’s more violent than
seeing all the action up close. Later, when

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the girls explain the robbery to Selena,
Harmony had the idea to show the inside
action as a flashback. That footage was
shot by [B-camera operator] Erik Curtis,
who was shooting from behind a wall in the

diner while I was shooting from the car. For
the interior, we also played with the film
speed a bit, shooting some action at 6 fps.
It was very choppy and blurry when we
played it back at 24 fps.
How did you add visual interest
to scenes that take place in less colorful
locations, like the university classroom?
Debie: Some of our locations were
quite boring, with white walls and fluorescent lighting, and the classroom was one of
them. While we were scouting, I went into
another classroom and saw all the students
using their computers, which gave me the
idea to close the curtains and light the scene
with only the computer screens. I thought
we might even be able to change the
[screen] colors to get something other than
blue or white. It was a challenge to try to
make that amount of light work and still
make the scene interesting.
Tell us how you approached the
gunfight at the end of the movie.
Debie: Harmony wanted that to
play like a video game, and he also wanted
to shoot it that way. We had to shoot the



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Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: “The Volt Plasma Challenge”
Production Slate: Frances Ha • Spring Breakers
Boldly Captured
Living Large
A Killer with 2 Faces
Utopian Dreams
Filmmakers’ Forum: Edgar Burcksen, ACE
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
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ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Shelly Johnson
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