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Heselden, A-camera 1st AC Taylor
Matheson, B-camera operator Steve
Maier and B-camera 1st AC Mark
Cohen.
The aesthetic for Elysium was
intended to resemble luxuriant travel
photography. An oceanfront mansion in
west Vancouver served as the location
for Rhodes’ home, and it is shown off in
a long Steadicam shot during a party
scene. The shot follows Foster from one
side of the house, where she meets some
guests, down through multiple levels
and to a rear pool area. Opaloch
explains, “We had an extensive bluescreen behind the pool, and it was one of
the more challenging bluescreens Finn
and his guys did because they had to
build all the truss work and anchor the
screen so we could shoot it at both high
and low tide. They had to install a
ballast system to keep it all secure. The
bluescreen also happened to be right on
top of our actors, so we worked out the
angles to get maximum sun exposure.
We needed extensive scaffolding to keep
it stable. The problem with that location
was that we were looking down into the
ocean, so we were getting all these specular reflections coming back into the
scene that wouldn’t make sense in the
final composition, once all the CG
terrain was added in the background.”
Another challenge at the location
was building up the interior ambience to
match the exterior sunlight. This was
accomplished by squeezing two 2.4K
HMI lighting balloons tight into the
ceiling inside, and by “cheating with iris
pulls,” says Opaloch. Outside, Foster
was placed in open shade from overheads and hit with a large, soft key; this
was initially a 20'x20' UltraBounce
return from the sun, and then, as natural
light faded, an 18K Fresnel double
diffused through full silk.
Almost all interiors were shot
onstage in Vancouver. “When we had
the room, we would shoot through 20bys of diffused light right up to the
mattebox to really wrap the light around
the subjects,” says Opaloch. Most
Elysium exteriors were filmed in west
Vancouver in the southlands, by the

Top: Rhodes sits
atop her perch in
the Elysium
control room.
Middle: Rhodes
observes a
restrained De
Costa. Bottom:
The crew readies
another take on
the set.

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