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Short Takes “Writing With Light” for The Willowz by Elina Shatkin The Willowz perform amid an explosion of practical lighting effects for the video “Jubilee,” shot by Ross Riege. D irector Toben Seymour and cinematographer Ross Riege grew up together in Wisconsin, and they shared a passion for stop-motion animation and puppetry. With the “Jubilee” music video for The Willowz, they found an opportunity to try a technique they had been interested in for some time: stop-motion long-exposure photography. “We’d had the idea tucked away in our archive for a long time,” says Riege. “We wanted to find the right project, something that would allow us to really push the concept.” Inspired by Pika Pika, a group of Japanese artists who created whimsical videos from still images adorned with light doodles, Seymour and Riege began laying the groundwork for a stopmotion video composed entirely of still images. Although the images would require significant refinement in post, they wanted to create all the light- doodle effects in camera. “It was really important to us that the video be organic,” says Riege. “We wanted to create something that couldn’t be done in post.” Set at night, “Jubilee” begins with a series of casual shots of outdoor scenes adorned with simple light doodles (a bouncing ball, a box, a flower), and then transitions to shots of people interacting with and creating larger, more complex light doodles; for example, two people feed light-doodle fish to a light-doodle pelican, and a lightdoodle tree grows and swallows a man. As the song’s tempo picks up, the video builds to a frenzied scene of The Willowz performing amid an electronic storm of light doodles. The video was largely shot over three days in November 2006. Riege had at his disposal 12 digital still cameras: six Canon 350Ds (8 MP), four Nikon D50s (6 MP), and two Canon 20Ds (8 MP). “I made sure the Canons were operating in the same RGB color space, but aside from that I left the cameras’ presets at their base levels. I knew I’d be performing all the color correction in post, so I decided to shoot images as clean as possible. “Most of our cameras came from contacts who were willing to rent or loan them to us, so we were all over the map in terms of lenses,” he continues. “On the 20Ds, which we used for firstunit photography, we used a package of three lenses I would have preferred to use on all the cameras: a Canon 2470mm f/2.8L, a Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L, and a Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 prime. However, we couldn’t afford to rent those lenses for everything, so we used what we had: Canon 17-85mm f/4-5.6 on the 350Ds and Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 on the D50s. 72 August 2007 Photos courtesy of Ross Riege.

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - August 2007

Contents
Editor’s Note
Global Village
DVD Playback
Production Slate
Let There Be Light
Rock ’Em, Sock ’Em Robots
Ghost Writer
Dance Fever
Short Takes
Post Focus
New Products & Services
Points East
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
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