American Cinematographer - December 2007 - (Page 34)

Irretrievable Deeds home, this segment was filmed on location at Stokesay Court in Shropshire. Built in 1889, the house is privately owned, which benefited the filmmakers and limited red tape. “Fortunately, the woman of the house took a bit of a shine to us,” says gaffer Perry Evans. “She really let us have the run of the place.” This enabled Evans and his crew to keep lights rigged inside, which meant they could knock off interior scenes when weather precluded shooting outside. To maintain the look of a hot summer day indoors (even when rain darkened the sky outside), McGarvey used a number of daylight-balanced sources, mainly 18Ks and 12K Pars. “I would light the actors near the windows with soft, bounced sources, like a 4K bounced into foamcore and then through silks, creating a soft wrap on faces,” he recalls. “Then, to create a sense of searing sunlight coming through a window, I’d have pools of light in the background that were 4 or 5 stops overexposed.” When fill was required, “we used Kinos — Wall-OLites and Image 80s — because we didn’t want to build the heat up inside the house,” adds Evans. To match the HMI sources out the windows, daylight-balanced tubes were used in the Kino Flos. The filmmakers tried to stage exterior action in direct sunlight to emphasize the heat. For example, a crane shot that begins on the Tallis house and then descends into a rocky, weed-strewn area was lit with natural sunlight, but “we only got one or two takes before it completely clouded over, so I lit the close-ups with an 18K on Briony and backlit the grass in the foreground with another 18K so it sparkled a bit and matched the sunlight in the wider shot,” says McGarvey. To further emphasize the heat, the cinematographer shot most of the 1935 scenes with a 10-denier Christian Dior black stocking on the Top: Briony shares her suspicions about Robbie with a visiting friend, Lola (Juno Temple). Middle: Years after the incident, 18year-old Briony (Romola Garai) serves as a nurse during World War II. Bottom: Decades later, an elderly Briony (Vanessa Redgrave), now a highly regarded author, appears on a television talk show to discuss the book she’s written to bring closure to her memories. 34 December 2007

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