American Cinematographer - October 2007 - (Page 59) the moonlight with an 18K and 12K Par gelled with our moonlight color combo. In such a large space, those big lights seemed like Dinkies, so we were at a T1.3 and were still underexposing the moonlight by half a stop. I used the headlights of the soldiers’ trucks to add contrast and drama to the scene, hiding 2K Fresnels behind the trucks to enhance the period trucks’ dim headlights.” Prieto rarely used hard light, but it felt appropriate for one scene that occurs after Yee has ordered an execution. At the designated hour, he sits alone in a bedroom and listens to the clock chime. Prieto imagined him in a dark room, lit by the hallway light. “The first image is looking at the door, and the lights from the hallway naturally create an atmospheric scene because he is silhouetted. But when we went in for coverage in the opposite angle to see his expression, the light source was behind the camera. I thought we should go against what we’d been doing and use very hard, naked frontal light. So we literally put him in the spotlight — he’s finally exposed, vulnerable. There’s no more mystery.” In shots looking toward the hall, Prieto used a 2K Fresnel in the corridor above the door. For the reverse angle, the crew knocked down a set wall and swapped the 2K for a 10K without its lens placed farther back, so the exposure on Leung’s face would not change radically as he walked toward the light when leaving the room. The scene’s treatment grew out of this noir touch. “It wasn’t scripted,” says Prieto. “After he left the frame, it occurred to us to tilt the camera down to show the shape of his shadow on the bed. You see his shadow turn around, look at the bed, and then leave. The scene ends with a simple shot of the empty bed lit by the lonely frontal light from the hallway. I wouldn’t call it a pretty shot, but it’s effective.” I TECHNICAL SPECS 1.85:1 35mm Arricam Studio, Lite Arri Master Prime and Angenieux lenses Fuji Eterna 500T 8573; Kodak Vision2 200T 5217 Digital Intermediate Printed on Fuji Eterna-CP 3513DI 59 http://www.efd.com.mx http://www.efd.com.mx http://www.efdusa.net
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