American Cinematographer - July 2008 - (Page 41) Left: A more detailed view of the customized Mercedes SUV, which also served as a tow vehicle. Below: Other shots for the Batpod chase were captured with cameras mounted on motorcycles. spontaneity, even on the grander scale of a film like this, the experience of working with people previously is a huge advantage. That spontaneity is possible because of trust and thorough preparation.” The production also filmed in the United Kingdom for 53 days, returning to the cavernous Cardington hangar to film sets and shooting on location at Battersea Power Station on the outskirts of London. Some set pieces from Batman Begins were redressed, but the street-exterior sets seen in the first film were much less prominent on the schedule. The exterior of the Pruitt building, an eight-story structure built inside the 200'-high hangar by fire brigades for practice and testing, makes an encore appearance in The Dark Knight. This time, its interior also appears in a climactic sequence. Batman’s sleek secret bunker was built in the hangar at Cardington, a walled open space that measures 200' long by 60' wide and has no support columns. Onscreen, the entire ceiling of the bunker emits light. “Cardington is an enormous space, and it took a bit of engineering to light it from above,” says Perry Evans, a veteran of Batman Begins who served as gaffer for the U.K. shoot. “Our lights couldn’t interfere with the construction that supported the ceiling, so we brought in a rock ’n’ roll-lighting company that built a huge gantry that hung 40 feet above the set.” Evans and his team hung 300 space lights about 15' above the actual ceiling; each lamp had six 800watt bulbs, diffusion and silk skirting. The production tested various materials for the actual ceiling to find American Cinematographer 41
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