American Cinematographer - December 2008 - (Page 34) A High Price for Progress Right: Milk celebrates his victory with his new beau (Diego Luna, right) and others. Below: Milk and his friends speak to the press. — it beats the black up. Films from the ’70s didn’t really have great blacks, certainly not the kind of black you have in today’s stocks.” Irving Correa at Clairmont Camera in Hollywood helped assemble the lens package, which also included a set of Cooke S4 primes, a 10:1 Angenieux HR (25-250mm) zoom and a 20:1 Angenieux (40mm800mm) zoom. (The latter was reserved for a key shot that shows Milk and Smith kissing on the sidewalk before zooming out to a wide reveal of the Castro neighborhood.) Milk was shot in 3-perf Super 1.85:1 mainly with the Arricam system, but for some material, the filmmakers used a pair of 16mm Canon Scoopics they had located online. Featuring a fixed lens and automatic exposure, and able to accommodate a 100' load, the Scoopic proved perfect for a sequence in which Milk and Smith drive from New York to San Francisco. Driving along the peninsula south of San Francisco, Penn and Franco shot this footage themselves, and 1st AC Patrick McArdle rode along in the back seat. “Sean and James were completely in character and having a great time with the camera,” recalls McArdle. “Whenever they ran out of film, they’d pass the camera back to me so I could reload it and hand them the other camera. We went through 19 or 20 loads like that.” When the film’s documentary strategy was shelved, Savides had to reassess not only the shooting style but also his lighting design. He had planned a rougher lighting style that would mesh with the vérité approach, and he decided it was still appropriate. “My intention wasn’t really to light that much, but to make it feel as if you were really in the situations, which frequently means using imperfect light.” The lighting equipment came from DTC Grip and Electric, a company owned by gaffer Steve Condiotti. He and Savides shied away from Fresnels and instead employed an array of older lighting instruments such as Lowel K5s, 2K Scoops, China balls and open-faced incandescent lights, 34 December 2008
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