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The movie’s period theater interiors were built onstage at Studio Babelsberg. Foerster’s crew came up with a variety of ingenious solutions to challenges created by the circular floor plan and open roof, and even simulated rain for a compelling staging of Hamlet.
“A misconception about shooting digitally is that you need less light,” she continues. “Actually, you just use light differently. If I were shooting at 400 ASA, I would have needed to double the amount of light or shoot at a different stop, but then I couldn’t have played different color temperatures off each other at twilight or dawn, or shoot with candles during the daytime.” Foerster was excited about seeing her images on set as they would appear in the dailies and the final, but she still kept her light meter close by, using it to sketch out contrast levels before dialing them in on a monitor. “Maybe one day I’ll give it up, but I had to have my meter on this movie,” she says. “I wanted to be precise with my work.” Window light plays significantly in all the interior day scenes — to the point where the characters seem drawn to them — so many of the sets were designed with huge windows in mind. There are times when the windows are used almost like spotlights on a theater stage, with characters moving in and out of shafts of light for emotional emphasis. Even at 800 ASA, rows of 18K HMIs were stationed on scaffolding outside the sets, high up and far away and diffused through sheets of Rosco1⁄2
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Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: “Sleep Forever”
Production Slate: Circumstance • Brighton Rock
A Mighty Pen
Immersive Dance
Airing Dirty Laundry
Tips on Location Scouting
Post Focus: Cinelicious
Filmmakers’ Forum: 24-Frame Video Playback
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
ASC Membership Roster
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC
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