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Wild Planet
Right: Kitai
trains for a
mission. Below:
The crew
prepares a crane
shot of young
Smith on
location in Utah.
ing, finally, a lethal alien.
About half the film was shot on
stages built in a former factory in
Philadelphia, Pa., and the rest involved
location work in the jungles of Costa
Rica, the redwood forests of Northern
California, and the desert salt flats in
Utah. “A film of this scale would
normally have 85-plus days to shoot,
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but we had 63, so we had to work
quickly,” notes Suschitzky.
Shyamalan emphasizes the
importance of the natural locations:
“Whatever camera we used, it was critical that we be able to capture the richness and the subtleties of the
environments we were in — for example, the very complex details you see
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when you’re looking at trees against
other trees, or a canopy of bushes. The
primary objective was to pull the depth
and colors from each leaf and really
convey the splendor of what these locations had to offer. The F65 could
capture all of it.”
For Suschitzky, the detail of the
F65 image “felt a bit too analytical, so I
added a 1/8 [Tiffen] Black Pro-Mist to
the lens, and then it looked very filmic.
The problem with Pro-Mists is that you
get a flare when you have a white sky,
and there are a few occasions in the film
when we got that, but I never took the
filter off because the difference with and
without it was quite marked.”
After Earth was shot in 2.39:1
with Cooke S4 prime lenses and
Angenieux Optimo zooms. “We used
zooms because we had very little shooting time, and we were on the
Technocrane a lot,” Suschitzky explains.
“I’ve always been suspicious of using
zooms to capture nearly everything, but
it’s pretty difficult to tell the Optimos
apart from primes; they’re very similar
in definition.”
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Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Dreamland
Production Slate: Laurence Anyways • Post Tenebras Lux
Prime Target
Wild Planet
An Indie Twist on Shakespeare
Tournament of Death
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Don Burgess
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