American Cinematographer - November 2008 - (Page 30) Forging a Bond Right: The show’s sets, created by production designer Dennis Gassner and his crew, were intended to hark back to the expansive look of 1960s and ’70s Bond films, which showcased spectacular spaces imagined by renowned production designer Ken Adam. Below left: Greene steps aboard a CIA jet for a meeting with operatives of the American agency, including Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright). Below right: An injured Bond and Camille arrive at an airfield in Bolivia. This sequence was actually shot at a Chilean airstrip. had to fight to let things stack up in the frame without people moving them out of the way. We probably didn’t get quite as much of that as we hoped to, but we also didn’t want the first-unit material to stand out from the second-unit footage.” As is typical on a Bond film, the second unit’s work was extensive, and this influenced the filmmakers’ decision to shoot Super 35mm. (The second unit was led by director Dan Bradley and director of photography Shaun O’Dell, collabo- rators on The Bourne Ultimatum.) Schaefer initially considered 2-perf, which was ruled out because of the unforgiving lack of space between frames, and anamorphic, a favorite on previous Bond films. “Marc and I really wanted anamorphic, and the effects team could have worked with it, but in the end, we went with spherical because the post schedule was so tight we knew they’d be delivering effects up to the last day of my final grade,” says the cinematographer. “We didn’t want to be a week away from the film being shown and still getting effects shots delivered that we weren’t happy with yet. “On the other hand, my difficulty with spherical and specifically the digital-intermediate [DI] process is that anybody can go in and change everything — editors can reframe to make an edit work without paying sufficient attention to composition,” he continues. “If you shoot anamorphic, you’ve got the top and bottom of the frame, and that’s it. Spherical was a double-edged sword; certain 30 November 2008
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