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feel real - to make it feel like we were
actually on the mountain. The audience
should be asking, 'How the hell did they
get up there?'"
The Hillary Step is a famous
feature of the Everest ascent, and it was
there that Rob Hall died in 1996. To recreate his last moments, the production
surrounded the set in thick, clear, insulating plastic and brought in refrigeration units to cool the enclosure down to
20° Fahrenheit. This allowed them to
use actual ice and snow on the set.
Totino lit through the transparent
enclosure with the FloLight banks and
SoftSun fixtures.
Digital-imaging technician Jody
Neckles assisted Totino on the mountain, setting looks and LUTs. Dailies
were delivered via the Pix system, but
production would download dailies to
an iPad for Totino, who would use
Apple TV to play them on a large television in his hotel room. "It's nothing
like looking at film-projected dailies,
but it's the way of the modern production," the cinematographer says.
"I like having the files downloaded on the iPad, because we could
have production download specific
sequences and I could carry that with
me during the day," Totino continues.
"If we had to go back to a scene or
match a scene, I had the footage right
there with me to match to it. In the past,
I would have had the lab print a small
strip from a sequence, and I'd be looking
at those frames on set and matching to
that look. Now it's a lot easier." Colorist
Greg Fisher performed the final grade
at Company 3 in London, using
DaVinci Resolve 11 for a 2048x858
final deliverable.
"This was an incredibly challenging film," Totino says of the intensive,
55-day shoot. "We shot five weeks on
location and another five weeks on
stage, and none of it was easy. They say
Everest is the highest and most popular
climb for experienced climbers, but it's
sobering how many people die up there
- not as often from accidents as just
not taking care of their bodies and not
realizing their limitations in the environment. They get exhausted and dehydrated and there's no quick way to help.
During prep we saw video from some
climbers from the year before. They
were climbing and everyone had to step
over a dead body lying on the mountain.
It's very sobering, but it was a phenomenal experience to make this film and
tell this story."
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American Cinematographer - October 2015 - Intro
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