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the escape instructions have been lost. The city’s ambient light comes from an enormous grid of lamps suspended high over the town. To create the effect, Grobet’s crew spent weeks pre-rigging the entire stage, working with a massive overhead truss. “I wanted a base lighting along with shafts of light over the whole stage,” explains the cinematographer. “We hung many different units, including lots of Par cans and space lights; they were aimed in all different directions, so depending on the camera angle, we were able to turn certain units on or off.” The filmmakers also explored ways to achieve shots in which the grid appears in the frame. Grobet recalls, “We originally thought we would film those lights practically up in the grid, but as we started building sets, I realized that lighting shots and having lights you needed to see were two very different purposes. On the other hand, how many times were we really going to be looking straight up into the lights? Not all that much. Also, it’s supposed to be a huge grid of lighting, but with the size of our stage, you’d never really get the sense of lights fading far off into the distance. We were going to have to continue [the grid] digitally anyway, so we decided to just do it all digitally. That made setting up the grid solely for movie lighting much more straightforward.” The task of visualizing Ember’s lighting grid fell to visual-effects supervisor Eric Durst. “Production designer Martin Laing’s concept drawings really suggested the feeling and flavor of the city — it’s old and not perfect,” says Durst. “When we got into building the lighting grid in 3-D with [French visual-effects house] Buf, which we did using their proprietary animation software, we had lots of reference TENURE-TRACK FACULTY IN FILM & VIDEO Emphasis in Cinematography Columbia College Chicago is an undergraduate and graduate college in downtown Chicago whose principal commitment is to provide comprehensive educational opportunities in the arts, communications and public information, within a context of enlightened liberal education. Columbia is the fifth largest private educational institution in Illinois, with a Fall 2007 enrollment of more than 12,000 students. 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