American Cinematographer - September 2007 - (Page 38) Bourne Again Right: On location in New York, the crew prepares to film the aftermath of one of Bourne’s narrow escapes. Below: After driving off the roof of the Port Authority, Bourne heads out on foot. are good lighting people in Morocco who are very efficient, friendly and extremely helpful, but we were shooting during Ramadan, which wasn’t the best time to be in the area. During Ramadan Muslims don’t eat or drink during sunlight hours, and smokers aren’t supposed to smoke, either. Some fights broke out in the crowds around us when it was 3 in the afternoon and people hadn’t had a drink of water since 5 in the morning. There was no threat to the crew, but we kept police with us when we worked.” Of course, any country offers its own challenges to a production intent on shooting big action sequences in crowded locations. Higgins cites a scene set in London’s Waterloo Station, where Bourne has arranged to meet a reporter who might have valuable information. Their meeting is cut short when a mob of agents swarms the pair. “Waterloo is one of the busiest stations in England, maybe all of Europe,” says Higgins. “So many people pass through there each day that we just couldn’t have any cables running through.” Wood adds, “We could only shoot between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., and it was midwinter, so the sun was down by 3:30. At first I thought we could float lots of lighting balloons, but they forbade me to do it. So a few weeks before we were scheduled to shoot there, I went in at 4 p.m. and took some stills and light readings, and I discovered that even when the sun was down, the [practicals] in the station gave me a T2.8, and I knew we could work with that if we had to.” This was mainly achieved by adding small bulbs to the station’s existing lights. “Everything had to be run on batteries, so all I had were two Image 80 Kino Flo packs on shopping carts and two smaller HMIs with Chimeras. I used those four lights to pick up various things in the shot. Sometimes I didn’t use them at all, and sometimes I’d string all four of them behind the camera just to provide a little ambience.” Sometimes Wood found 38 September 2007
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