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Photos by Matt Hart, Justin Ridler and Douglas Kirkland, courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.

negative space to stage action upstage
and downstage.”
Before commencing the official
prep, Luhrmann rehearsed several
scenes with the lead actors in New York,
and Duggan attended these sessions.
He and Luhrmann had already decided
to shoot with Red Epic-X cameras and
3ality TS-5 rigs, and they used the
rehearsals to familiarize themselves
with the rigs, choose lenses and experiment with foreground and background
elements to establish the film’s parallax
range.
“Baz and Simon decided to use
shorter focal lengths, even for close-ups,
which brought a huge advantage to
3-D,” says Alonso Homs, the production’s stereographer. “Staying with wider
lenses is an efficient means of arriving at
the desired depth and volume. One
percent of onscreen parallax on a 32mm
lens is nothing like 1 percent of
onscreen parallax on a 50mm lens.”
Duggan adds, “Zeiss Ultra Primes in
the 16mm to 85mm range had a realistic feel and also gave the 3-D images

Opposite: Simon
Duggan, ACS teamed
with Baz Luhrmann
to bring the Roaring
Twenties to 3-D life
in The Great Gatsby.
Above (from left):
Nick Carraway (Tobey
Maguire), Jay Gatsby
(Leonardo DiCaprio),
Daisy Buchanan
(Carey Mulligan) and
Tom Buchanan (Joel
Edgerton) look out at
a lavish party. Below:
Duggan confers with
gaffer Shaun Conway
on the ballroom set.

great volume and depth. The 28mm
and 40mm became firm favorites.”
Also prior to the official prep, Acamera 1st AC David Elmes was given
invaluable access to the Red Epic-X
cameras and 3ality rigs used on The
Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (AC Jan.
’12). He recalls, “Andrew Lesnie [ASC,
ACS] and his team allowed me to
spend time with their cameras and technician teams very early on, and this cut
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down our camera-prep time by at least
two weeks. Also, our two 3ality technicians, Jeff Amaral and Don Presley, had
just finished working on The Amazing
Spider-Man [AC Aug. ’12], and that
streamlined our lens-matching and
camera-matching processes.” The
Gatsby team carried two standard TS-5
rigs for production and crane work and
a lighter, carbon-fiber version of the rig
for Steadicam work.
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American Cinematographer - June 2013
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
Ad Index
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Shelly Johnson
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