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matographer, I always tried to be there for directors when I knew they needed convincing, and David was there for me on this one.” Both Schneider and Boyd take great pains to credit their cast and crew for helping to make Get Low a reality. If they credit themselves with anything, it’s with maintaining the authenticity of the era and the story. “Cinematography has to be authentic, especially on a period piece,” says Boyd. “You have to really control what gets into the frame, whether those details are large or small, and we did that ruthlessly. We filmmakers were the ones who saw this story first, before anyone else, and our mission from the outset was to tell it correctly. I’m happy we did.” ●
Top left: With Blasingame assisting, Boyd films Rev. Jackson’s arrival at Felix’s big event. Top right: A Technocrane comes into play for the “funeral party.” Above: The filmmakers prepare to capture another angle of the stage as Quinn welcomes the crowd.
proceedings. He arranged to have a small Technocrane brought in on a stake-bed truck that could maneuver quickly over the dirt roads. “During the day, time was of the essence, and we were not permitted to use a Chapman crane because of its weight,” he recalls. “We needed a movable and easy-toplace camera, so we rigged the Technocrane on the back of the stakebed truck.” Later, the filmmakers had to cover Spacek reacting to the speech, a critical scene shot on an extremely busy day. “We needed to shoot Sissy’s performance when the sunlight was over the trees because of the time of day that the
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reverse angle had been shot previously,” Schneider explains. “Sissy’s big moment had arrived, and it was already pretty late in the day. I knew she was about to give the most emotional performance of the shoot, and I wanted to make sure she had the time to do what she wanted to do. I wanted to shoot with about an hour to go in the day, but David resisted. He kept saying, ‘No, let’s wait.’ By the time we lined three cameras up on her, the sun was starting to tickle the treetops. But Sissy nailed it and gave us a beautiful performance, and, like Bobby, she did it in one take. The tears rolling down her face caught the low, warm light, and it was magic. As a cineAmerican Cinematographer
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - August 2010
The International Journal of Motion Imaging - August 2010 Vol. 91 No. 8
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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