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movies countless times before. An example is Billy’s house, which is located in Echo Park on a steep hill overlooking downtown. When filming interiors, the filmmakers blocked and exposed to ensure that the skyline was visible through the living-room windows, which were layered with ND.6. For exterior shots of the house, the skyline was always reflected in the windows. For a walk-and-talk on the sidewalk, the steep incline worked in the team’s favor. “We had a palm tree at the top of the hill against the blue sky, and we could pan down the hill and see the whole of downtown Los Angeles in the distance,” Davis says. Davis boosted the saturation of the blue skies and green palms, as well as the warmth of the flesh tones, in the two weeks he spent grading the picture with colorist Adam Glasman at Company 3 in London. He notes, however, that “the film stock did most of it for us. For all the contemporary scenes, we just blued up skies, added some contrast, saturated the color a bit and gave it that sense of heat. We did a lot more work on the flashbacks, enhancing grain and desaturating colors.” McDonagh’s beloved palm trees also appear in the view from a hospital room where Hans’ wife is undergoing treatment. To enhance the trees’ visibility, Davis and Glasman worked some magic in the DI, bringing the interior/exterior balance to the point where the windows were about equal to the exposure inside the room. Davis recalls, “I told Martin I was worried it looked a bit artificial, but when I showed him the more naturalistic look, he preferred it the other way. Within the realm of this story, slightly strange-looking things seemed to work. They just went with the movie.” In lighting, Davis often made use of strong color, especially red. An example is a scene involving Hans that was shot in a bar in Culver City. The walls were decorated with animal skulls, “but apart from that,” says Davis, “the bar looked kind of normal, so I thought we’d bring in a strong sense of color. We lit
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Top: Farrell and Harrelson prepare for some processtrailer work. Middle: Davis captures another angle of the actors for the sequence. Bottom: The team films Charlie on the loose in the desert.
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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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