American Cinematographer - September 2008 - (Page 36) Portrait of a Lady With Georgina lending her emotional support and celebrity to his cause, Lord Grey makes a fiery political speech in a public square. The sequence was covered by several cameras, including one mounted on a telescoping Louma 2 crane. candles permitted by the National Trust. The cinematographer also performed an impromptu experiment at one of the locations to get an impression of the reality he sought to emulate. “We were doing a scene in a ballroom with 400 candles, and I was curious to see what the room would really have looked like,” says Pados. “So I asked the crew to light all the candles and turn the lights off, and I was really surprised — it was pitch black!” Pados knew filming in such low light levels would create a dirty look that would work against Dibb’s desire for the film’s early scenes, which were designed to show the happiness of Georgina’s youth and the grandeur of her first few years with the duke. He did not, however, want to use lights with flicker effects to bolster the candlelight. “When you’ve got 400 candles in a room, they’re all flickering differently and the overall effect is that you don’t see any flicker,” he notes. “I only used flicker on the few occasions where we could use a fireplace as a light source, and I usually used a 2K Zip 36 September 2008
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