American Cinematographer - December 2008 - (Page 54) Rags toRiches shot all 35mm material on Fuji negative, mostly the 500-speed Reala 8592 and Eterna 8573. “For the film scenes, we wanted to work at night, in the blue hours and early mornings with as little disturbance to our surroundings as possible,” he explains. “I did tests with [B-camera operator/second-unit cinematographer] Mrinal Desai, and we tested Reala 500D and Eterna 500T pushed 1 stop to see if we could grab a little more of the street ambience, especially what goes on in the shadows. I knew from the outset that pushing these stocks would have a knock-on effect on my post in terms of digital noise reduction and the sharpening and desharpening of digital grain, which appears in the DI when you’re working with pushed material. “Sure enough, I was noisereducing and sharpening through the grading sessions — and I would have done more if there had been more time. It must be said that the tools available for these tasks vary greatly, and we did not have the optimal tools on hand. But we worked with what we had, and the team at MPC worked very, very hard to help me through. The scene that shows the kids in the container park in the Above: Jamal and his brother, Salim, are enchanted by young Latika (Rubina Ali), a fellow orphan. Below: Dod Mantle and director Danny Boyle take turns assessing angles. era were interested in learning the modern technology, but some were more keen than others, whereas everybody around me knew the language of celluloid,” he says. “[Using film] sometimes helped us avoid unforeseen problems. When the second unit had to hit a scene with minimal crew and minimal gear in a sensitive area without my presence, I would think very carefully about issuing them the digital gear with all its potential complications. Often I sent them [out] with a 35mm camera instead.” Arri Media in London supplied the production with an Arricam Lite, an Arricam Studio, an Arri 235, and lenses that included Zeiss Superspeeds, Standard Speeds and Ultra Primes and Angenieux Optimo zooms. (The filmmakers also carried an Arri BL-4 provided by Pille in Germany.) Dod Mantle 54 December 2008
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