American Cinematographer - August 2017 - 40

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Great Escape

Van Hoytema,
Nolan and crew
prepare an
underwater
shot in which a
soldier
submerges to
escape the
inferno on the
surface.

Imax, you are basically losing 3 stops of
depth of field. Fortunately, they wanted
an epic look, and to utilize as much
depth of the large format as they could
for lots of day exteriors, when we had
the sun - but that was not all the time.
We were shooting at an 8-stop, but that
left me with an effective 2.8 for depth of
field. And then, as the day went on, that
diminished greatly."

40

Regarding the constantly shifting
European skies over the English
Channel, van Hoytema decided early on
that he would not try to "intervene with
light" when shooting day exteriors on
the beach in Europe. Rather, he opted
to go for "a true visual sense of the
moment," he says.
"European skies are very
extreme," van Hoytema notes, "and

weather can change from moment to
moment - but we wanted all those
changes, as it really is, and we didn't
want to stop and micromanage certain
light directions. So for those kinds of
scenes it didn't matter if the light was
flat from the front or backlit, or if it was
windy and raining and then the next
day it wasn't. We felt that was part of the
reality we were filming. Our job wasn't
to create a special look - our job was to
observe and take in what we could get."
More traditional lighting was
used, however, for such setups as the
various ships featured in the production,
which needed period-relevant lighting.
The film's most sophisticated lighting
rigs were supervised by two gaffers -
Helmut Prein handling the European
sequences, and Adam Chambers overseeing the water-tank work at the
Warner Bros. studios in Los Angeles.
(See sidebar, page 36.)
Per Nolan's edict, the movie was
finished photochemically at FotoKem,



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