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beautiful. When they opened the site for tourists the next day, they got so many compliments they decided to keep them. I think they’re still there! “That scene was especially tricky for Zoran because we were on Steadicam, wide open on Zeiss Super Speeds, with an 85mm for close-ups. He really nailed it. We used the Alexa for the other Turkey scenes to keep that look consistent, and to make sure it was differentiated from the grainy texture of the Iran scenes. When we saw dailies, we were worried the clean digital images would be too different from the look of the rest of the picture, but within the flow of the story, it works.” All of the Alexa footage was recorded in ArriRaw, and when Estrada timed the dailies, he applied the LUT EFilm has developed to emulate 5219. Prieto is enthusiastic about the CinemaScan system, which uses EFilm’s EWorks color-timing technology to maintain a consistent look from

The camera team works handheld to capture some action in the U.S. Embassy.

with the Zeiss lenses, for sequences set in Istanbul, mainly because the key scene, Mendez’s rendezvous with an OSS officer, was shot in the cavernous Hagia Sophia. “Turkey stood in for Iran for most of the film, but in this case, we wanted to use Turkey as Turkey, so we made a point of using a recognizable site,” he notes. While scouting the Byzantine landmark with his Turkish electricians,

Prieto noted ruefully that the lights in the massive chandeliers were compact fluorescents that bathed everything in a green hue. “Ali and Durmus said they could ask permission to change the bulbs, and they actually made it happen — they swapped out 4,000 fluorescent bulbs for 7-watt incandescent bulbs!” he marvels. “That actually made it a little darker, of course, but the lights were warm and twinkly, and they looked

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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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