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Bauman faced a big lighting setup for the scene in which Quell walks toward Dodd’s yacht. “The set was on some old docks at Mare Island and involved lighting a few boats, including the hero boat where everyone was dancing. We built a large soft box hung off an 80-foot Condor supporting four 6-light Maxi-Brutes aimed through a 12-by-12 of Light Grid diffusion. A variety of Par cans were spread around the facility, including many hanging off a gantry system. We also used a bunch of clip lights from Home Depot. We screwed 200-watt bulbs into them, and their reflectors created a nice, large source that looked great in the background.”
Malaimare styled Quell’s portrait lighting with a classical three-point setup, using a high keylight. “For scenes that depict still photography, I always like to be as accurate to the period as possible,” he notes. (For a later scene in which Quell shoots a portrait of Dodd for a book cover, Malaimare used his Crown Graphic to capture the photos on 4x5 negative.) Quell’s studio was lit
with a mix of natural daylight, the daylight-balanced fluorescents in the ceiling, and 250-watt BCA incandescent bulbs in Quell’s fixtures. Darkroom scenes were shot on 5213 and lit with 4'x4' and 2'x4' Kinos tinted with yellow gels; these were used “only as toplight so the actors could have as much freedom as possible to move around,” Bauman explains.
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Quell is coarse with women and violent with men, and Phoenix conveys the character’s social discomfort with a range of physical tics. If he were the subject of an actual documentary, he would be difficult to keep in focus, but Brown says he “developed a gut feeling about how fast Joaquin was going to move, and how he was going to come at or go away from the camera.” He adds
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - November 2012
American Cinematographer - November 2012
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Kick Start Theft
Production Slate: Middle of Nowhere • Husbands
Promoting “The Cause”
Creative Conspiracies
Deep Shih Tzu
Bedlam’s New Address
First-Rate Fare
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Peter Deming
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American Cinematographer - November 2012 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - November 2012 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - November 2012 - Short Takes: Kick Start Theft
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American Cinematographer - November 2012 - Production Slate: Middle of Nowhere • Husbands
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American Cinematographer - November 2012 - New Products & Services
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American Cinematographer - November 2012 - International Marketplace
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American Cinematographer - November 2012 - Clubhouse News
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