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Left: Seeking to learn how to “bend” all of the elements, Aang arrives at Earth Nation with the siblings, indulging in a little air bending along the way. Below: Lesnie readies a shot on the Earth Nation set.

trapped in the frozen water. “We decided to simply slide around the lake day after day,” Lesnie recalls with a laugh. Katara and Sokka take Aang to their home, the Southern Water Tribe village. These scenes were filmed at Disko Bay, where, against a dramatic backdrop of floating icebergs, the art department constructed a complete village featuring numerous igloos and a meetinghouse. “The biggest issue was how long we could film a take before our young cast turned blue,” Lesnie says. After wrapping in Greenland, the crew thawed out in the warmer climes of Philadelphia. One of the sets built there was the deck of a Fire Nation warship commanded by Prince Zuko (Dev Patel). Banished by his father, Firelord Ozai, the 16-year-old Zuko can only return home if he captures the Avatar. His ship is a dark gray, coal-powered ironclad featuring a prominent foredeck, upon which several key scenes, including an encounter between Zuko and Aang, take place. Constructed in the Budd Building, a 180,000-square-foot warehouse in Philadelphia, the set was

70'x30', surrounded by greenscreens and lit by seven 12'x6' sausage-shaped 4.8K HMI lighting balloons. The balloons gave Lesnie a high shooting stop, which he prefers for studio scenes set outdoors, and their cooler color temperature contrasted with the real flame effects, enabling saturation of the flame elements when the image was timed back to a conventional color. A 50' SuperTechnocrane was used extensively on this set; however it didn’t always have the elevation needed to get
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over the gunnels. Patsos came up with the solution of putting the crane on a tow-truck to obtain extra height and simply driving the truck around the set from one setup to the next. The industrial environs of the disused and decaying Port Richmond Power Station, the former home of the Philadelphia Electric Co., was the setting for interior scenes on Zuko’s and other Fire Nation ships. A 100'x250' area was used as the mess hall of the ambitious Commander Zhao
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - July 2010

The International Journal of Motion Imaging - July 2010 Vol. 91 No. 7
Features
Dream Thieves (Inception)
Elements of Power (The Last Airbender)
An Emotional Rebirth (I Am Love)
Crowning Achievements (The Tudors)
Departments
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: “Telephone”
Production Slate: Lie to Me • The Killer Inside Me
Post Focus: Enhancing Frozen
Filmmakers’ Forum: Gale Tattersall
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoria: Karl Malkames, ASC • Vincent Martinelli, ASC
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Thomas A. Del Ruth
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American Cinematographer - July 2010 - An Emotional Rebirth (I Am Love)
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American Cinematographer - July 2010 - In Memoria: Karl Malkames, ASC • Vincent Martinelli, ASC
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