American Cinematographer - September 2007 - (Page 28) Cinematographer Peter Pau, HKSC finalizes his frame on location in Toronto. Lead villain Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti) faces off with Smith more than once, and each encounter ends in a standoff. They first confront one another in a warehouse. “Michael wanted to have a 360-degree rotation of wide and close-up shots of the two men holding guns on each other,” says Pau. “Steadicam operator Keith Murphy did some great shots [circling] the two actors. It was a tough lighting situation. It’s nighttime, and the only light source I created was a sodium-vapor street lamp outside the building. I hung 128 Par lamps on an industrial crane that was tall enough to send the light through the warehouse’s high windows, giving me a T4.5 reading at 400 ASA, which is how I always rate [Kodak Vision2 500T] 5218 when I have a distance of at least 200 feet.” (He also used Vision2 100T 5212 on the show.) A skydiving sequence in which Smith parachutes out of a plane proved tricky, because although it was all shot on a greenscreen stage, Pau knew that any movement that looked fake would destroy the illusion. “I used a 50-foot Technocrane to accommodate most of the flying shots and lit the area to be as bright as possible [with space lights] to give us maximum T-stops for a daylight feel. I was able to shoot between a T8 and T11. The camera was mounted on a StepZ Head that helped stabilize it when doing fast moves.” Pau always tried to place the camera “where I thought the viewer would like to be sitting or standing to watch the action.” In one long sequence New Cooke S4/ 300mm Prime Thermal compensation for accurate focus Compact design equipped Number 18 T2.8 M.O.D. 6'5'' 135mm M.O.D. 2’9'' T2 150mm M.O.D. 3'6'' T2 180mm M.O.D. 4'3'' T2 England: Phone 44-(0)116-264-0700 • Canada, South America, USA: Phone +1-973-335-4460 www.cookeoptics.com 28 http://www.cookeoptics.com http://www.cookeoptics.com
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