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Top: A specially built camera platform allows camera operator Jason Ellson and stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood to capture shots of Jolie atop a moving truck. Bottom: Noyce blocks out a subway sequence with Sakamoto.
ramp’s concrete barrier and crash into the street below. Nine Arri and Panavision cameras covered the crash; one was on a Supertechno 50 crane that extended over the side, flying next to the car as it went over. Crane wanted to have a moving camera inside the car, so 2nd-unit key grip Peter Chrimes installed a 5' camera slider in the cab so that when the car hit bottom, the camera, an Arri 235, would slam forward with the impact, going
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from a medium shot of Jolie to a closeup. “It’s important to keep the camera rolling after the impact so you see how it affects the character,” says Meglic. “We built a special cage for the camera with two rods, one on top of the lens and one on the bottom, to help prevent the lens from being ripped out. The lens had to be the lightest we could find, which turned out to be a 24mm Panavision Ultra Speed.” The team also had to make sure the crash didn’t
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disable the camera, so Chrimes figured out a way to slow down the slider in the last 4" of the move by hooking bungee cords to the back of the camera platform and layering strips of tape onto the slider’s rail. The gradual thickening of the tape slowed the platform enough that it hit the end of the track with much less force. The vehicle-interior plate was shot on the production’s greenscreen stages in Bethpage, with Jolie inside a mockup of the vehicle. As she acted out the moment of impact, Meglic photographed her at high speed with the same lens and camera slider used in the crash. From there, it was up to Framestore to marry the elements together, but it wasn’t a simple composite — the artists filled the car interior with all manner of digital debris, including glass, dust and metal fragments. “Without the proper atmosphere, it would have looked too clean,” says Moran. The final shot takes only a few seconds of screen time. “It happens so fast, but it’s not like seeing a pushin,” Meglic says. “It’s one of those little things, the imperceptible things, that
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Features
Cat and Mouse (Salt)
Girl Trouble (Pilgrim vs. the World)
A Magical Manhattan (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice)
True Colors (Get Low)
Departments
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Quiksilver ad campaign
Production Slate: Best-Shot Films of 1998-2008 • The Kids Are All Right
Post Focus: True Blood Workflow
Filmmakers’ Forum: Steven Fierberg, ASC
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Charles Minsky
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