American Cinematographer - November 2007 - (Page 73) dirty feel,” he adds. “Long lenses helped create the impression of a living hell without us having to set the whole town on fire. We had a couple of background flame bars on the ground that provided depth, and some of the deep-background flames are CGI.” After shooting so many sequences at night, Willems and the crew were relieved to shoot the final sequence of the film, in which the sun finally rises again on Barrow. “It was one of the most exciting sequences to light and shoot,” affirms Willems. “The nightmare the survivors have endured is finally over. Oleson and his wife, Stella [Melissa George], sit on a little hill and watch the sun rise over the Arctic Ocean. The sequence was shot fairly late in our schedule, so it felt like we were all emerging into the daylight. We’d shot seven consecutive weeks of night sequences, and we were all getting a little tired of it!” To avoid being at the mercy of New Zealand’s changeable weather, however, the sunrise was shot on a bluescreen stage. “The tricky thing about making a soundstage sunrise look real is having the quality and amount of fill look natural and the intensity of the sun just right,” says the cinematographer. “Before the sun is fully over the horizon, the color of the fill light, which comes from the sky, is very blue. The fill at the start of the scene is about 21⁄2 stops under, and when the sun is fully out and the camera is behind the characters, the sun is about 2 stops over key. I had the set surrounded with Ultra Bounces to create an incredibly soft ambient light with no shadow. Overhead we had very soft spacelights gelled with 1⁄2 CTB providing fill. Our sun was two Dinos going through Full CTS and 1⁄2 Magenta. We first thought of going through dimmers and bringing the light up slowly, but it just didn’t look right, so we put a black drape in front of the lights and lowered it during the scene. We had about 20 sunrises that day!” I TECHNICAL SPECS 2.40:1 Super 35mm Panaflex Millennium XL Primo lenses Kodak Vision2 200T 5217 Digital Intermediate 73 http://www.denz-deniz.com http://www.denz-deniz.com
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