American Cinematographer - September 2007 - (Page 51) me to minimize driving scenes because the traffic in Mumbai is a nightmare, and it’s almost impossible to find a stretch of road that isn’t full of giant potholes,” says Jeffcoat. “Plus, it’s a long dialogue scene, and we knew crowd control would be difficult on location. Production assured me they could build a believable street façade on the lot if we could film it as a stationary scene, so I rewrote the scene to have them get stuck in a traffic jam caused by a herd of water buffalo — something that actually happens there — and Tom organized getting the animals. “I fought to keep one driving scene, when Todd and Asha [a callcenter employee played by Ayesha Dharker] take a taxi out of town, and we set aside one day to film all those shots,” he continues. “We’d found a long stretch of decent road near a border checkpoint and obtained the necessary permits, but after we got one shot off the police showed up and stalled us, then finally shut us down. To this day I have no idea why. In the States, once you get your permit you’re okay to shoot, but in India it’s not so clearcut. Something called Bakshish, a little extra tip, figures into their permitting process, and maybe we missed someone somewhere along the line. So we lost a day there.” Although the shoot was not without other surprises, Jeffcoat and Maniaci consistently benefited from the four weeks of prep they’d had in India, work that included storyboarding the first half of the shoot. “I’m a freak about taking tons of location stills, and sometimes I’ll even do 360-degree shots and stitch them together,” says Jeffcoat. “When we sat down to storyboard, I’d shuffle through iPhoto, Teo would draw, and we’d piece together how the scene should go.” This work proved especially valuable “when something fell apart, like if we lost a location at the last minute, or if the nec51 http://www.cinematographyelectronics.com http://www.cinematographyelectronics.com http://www.backstageweb.com http://www.bron-kobold-usa.com http://www.bron-kobold-usa.com
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